HTML5 Canvas Cookbook

by Eric Rowell

Overview

The HTML5 canvas is revolutionizing graphics and visualizations on the Web. Powered by JavaScript, the HTML5 Canvas API enables web developers to create visualizations and animations right in the browser without Flash. Although the HTML5 Canvas is quickly becoming the standard for online graphics and interactivity, many developers fail to exercise all of the features that this powerful technology has to offer.The HTML5 Canvas Cookbook begins by covering the basics of the HTML5 Canvas API and then progresses by providing advanced techniques for handling features not directly supported by the API such as animation and canvas interactivity. It winds up by providing detailed templates for a few of the most common HTML5 canvas applications—data visualization, game development, and 3D modeling. It will acquaint you with interesting topics such as fractals, animation, physics, color models, and matrix mathematics.

By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of the HTML5 Canvas API and a toolbox of techniques for creating any type of HTML5 Canvas application, limited only by the extent of your imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849691376
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	11/25/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Eric Rowell is a professional web developer and entrepreneur who's fascinated with the web industry, business, technology, and how they fit together. He's the founder and chief editor of www.Html5CanvasTutorials.com, an HTML5 canvas resource that's designed to complement the recipes in his book , and also the creator of the KineticJS library, a lightweight JavaScript library that extends the 2D canvas context by adding support for animations and region event handling. If you're feeling social, you can follow him on Twitter at @ericdrowell.