HTML5 Canvas Cookbook

Over 80 recipes to revolutionize the Web experience with HTML5 Canvas

Key Features

• The quickest way to get up to speed with HTML5 Canvas application and game development
• Create stunning 3D visualizations and games without Flash
• Written in a modern, unobtrusive, and objected oriented JavaScript style so that the code can be reused in your own applications.
• Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

Book Description

What you will learn

• Learn about the fundamentals of line drawing, text drawing, shape drawing, composites, and picture drawing.
• Work with images, video, and pixel manipulation.
• Apply transformation effects including translations, scaling, rotations, and shearing.
• Animate linear motions, accelerations, and oscillations, and create a particle physics simulator.
• Extend the HTML5 Canvas API to support shape event handling for desktop and mobile applications.
• Construct data visualizations with graphs and charts.
• Develop your own HTML5 canvas games.
• Create stunning 3D visualizations with WebGL.

Who this book is for

This book is geared towards web developers who are familiar with HTML and JavaScript. It is written for both beginners and seasoned HTML5 developers with a good working knowledge of JavaScript.