Html5 canvas

What is HTML5 Canvas? Canvas is a new element in HTML5, which provides APIs that allow you to dynamically generate and render graphics, charts, images, and animation. The presence of the Canvas API for HTML5, strengthens the HTML5 platform by providing two-dimensional drawing capabilities. These capabilities are supported on most modern operating systems and browsers.Essentially, Canvas is a bitmap rendering engine, and the drawings are final and cannot be resized. Furthermore, objects drawn on Canvas are not part of the web page's DOM.Within a web page, you can add Canvas elements using the tag. These elements can then be enhanced using JavaScript to build interactivity. For more information, see this link. The new HTML5 Canvas document-type Animate enables you to create an HTML5 Canvas document with rich artwork, graphics, animations, and so on. A new document type (HTML5 Canvas) has been added to Animate that provides native support for creating rich and interactive HTML5 content. It means that you can use the traditional Animate timeline, workspace, and tools to create content, but produce HTML5 output. With a few simple clicks, you are ready to create an HTML5 Canvas doc and generate a fully functional output. To its end, within Animate, the document and publish options are preset to generate HTML5 output. Animate is integrated with CreateJS, which enables rich interactive content on open web technologies via HTML5. Animate generates HTML and JavaScript for content (includes bitmaps, vectors, shapes, sounds, tweens, and so on) created on stage. The output can be run on any device or browser that supports HTML5 Canvas. Animate and the Canvas API Animate publishes to HTML5 by leveraging the Canvas API. Animate seamlessly translates objects created on stage in to their Canvas counterparts. By providing a 1-to-1 mapping of Animate features with the APIs within Canvas, Animate enables you to publish complex content to HTML5. Creating an HTML5 Canvas document To create an HTML5 Canvas document, do the following: Select File > New to display the New Document dialog. Select the Advanced tab from the top of the screen and click the HTML5 Canvas option. This opens

Your existing FLA projects (of any type) to any other document type such as HTML5 Canvas, ActionScript/AIR, WebGL, or a custom document type. When you convert to a format, you can take advantage of the authoring features that Animate offers for that document type. For more information, see Convert to other document formats Converting ActionScript 3 to HTML5 Canvas document using JSFL script Animate provides a JSFL script to convert an AS3 document to HTML5 Canvas document. When run, the JSFL script does the following: Creates a new HTML5 Canvas document. Copies all layers, symbols, and library items to the new HTML5 Canvas document. Applies defaults to unsupported features, subfeatures, or feature-properties. Creates separate FLA files for each scene, because HTML5 Canvas document does not support multiple scenes. To convert an AS3 document to HTML5 Canvas document, do the following: Open the ActionScript 3 document in Animate. Select Commands > Convert AS3 to HTML5 Canvas document. This is applicable only when Combine images into spritesheet option is unchecked.

Fonts to your HTML5 Canvas document Animate offers Web fonts for Dynamic Text type in HTML5 Canvas document. Adobe Fonts provides direct access to thousands of quality, premium fonts from top foundry partners. You can access and use Adobe Fonts seamlessly in your HTML5 output for modern browsers and mobile devices, using your Creative Cloud membership. To know more about using web fonts from Adobe Fonts in Animate, see Using Webfonts in HTML5 Canvas documents Animate release 2015.2 enhances the visual experience for dynamic text in a canvas document so that the stage and published appearances are in sync. Note: Adobe Fonts are not available for Static text type. Understanding the HTML5 Canvas output The published HTML5 output contains the following files: HTML file Contains definitions for all shapes, objects, and artwork within the Canvas element. It also invokes the CreateJS namespace to convert Animate to HTML5 and the corresponding JavaScript file that contains interactive elements. JavaScript file Contains dedicated definitions and code for all interactive elements of the animation. Also defined within the JavaScript file are, code for all types of tweens. These files are copied to the same location as that of the FLA by default. You can change the location by providing the output path on the Publish Settings dialog (File > Publish Settings). Migrating existing content to HTML5 Canvas You can migrate existing content within Animate to generate an HTML5 output. To its end, Animate allows you to migrate content by manually copying or importing individual layers, symbols, and other library items. Alternatively, you could run the Convert AS3 to HTML5 Canvas document command to automatically port existing ActionScript content to a new HTML5 Canvas document. For more information, see this link. However, when working the HTML5 document type in Animate, you can notice that certain Animate features are not supported. This is because, the features within Animate do not have corresponding features within the Canvas API. And hence, these features cannot be used within the HTML5 Canvas document type. This may affect you during content migration, when you attempt to: Copy content (layers or library

Canvas Cycle: Jungle Waterfall This impressive demo leverages the HTML5 canvas element to mimic the color cycling computer animation technique that was popular back in the 1990’s. Ghost Writer Art Studio This is a great proof-of-concept that illustrates how you could use the HTML5 canvas element as an interactive drawing platform. Bomomo Bomomo is another great example of how you can use an HTML5 canvas element as a drawing medium.3D Grapher This beautiful example renders geometric equations into 3D models. Remixing Reality This demo exhibits the power of the WebGL JavaScript API and the canvas element; it superimposes 3D objects on top of a video. This could be how augmented reality on web pages can be implemented using open source code.Normal Mapped Photos This experiment demonstrates interesting interactive lighting effects applied to images. HTML5 Canvas Particle Animation Demo This experiment has variable settings such as what text you want to animate; it’s an excellent example that shows how to programmatically animate HTML on a canvas element. Maze This interesting HTML5 game is reminiscent of old 3D platform games and shows you how capable modern open source web technologies are in computer graphics animation. Beware though that there is background music, so lower your computer speaker’s volume before venturing into the maze! Wave This demo shows you the smoothness of animation that can be achieved when you draw on the canvas element. Conductor This interesting demo turns NY’s subway system (called MTA) into a musical string instrument. It gets the data in real-time using the MTA public API and then uses JavaScript, SVG drawn on HTML5 canvas, and the HTML5 audio element for the sounds. Learn more about the conductor project here. Video Destruction This is a proof-of-concept that illustrates how you can programmatically manipulate even videos with the use of the canvas element.Zen Photo Garden This demo shows you the ray tracing computer graphics technique done entirely using JavaScript and HTML5. Learn more about this demo here. The Cloth Simulation This interactive experiment uses the HTML5 canvas element to display the simulation of the physics of how cloth material moves. The application for this demonstration could be in 3D animation.Mesmerizer This interactive experiment animates your mouse movements in a grid rendered on an HTML5 canvas element. Canvas in 3D This 3D computer graphics animation is a simple but impressive example that illustrates how powerful the HTML5 canvas element is. Water Canvas This is a simulation of rainwater physics done on an HTML5 canvas element. You can tweak water physics variables such as light reflection and rate of rain drops. Interactive Typography Effects On the demo page, hover over the characters to see animation effects made possible with the use of