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Canvas Cookbook

You're reading from Canvas Cookbook Over 80 simple but creative and structured recipes to explore the capabilities of HTML5 Canvas

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785284892

Length 254 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

HTML

Tools

Canvas

Concepts

Web Design

Author (1):

Bhushan Purushottam Joshi

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Canvas Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Paths and Text FREE CHAPTER

2. Shapes and Composites

3. Animation

4. Images and Videos

5. Interactivity through Events

6. Creating Graphs and Charts

7. 3D Modeling

8. Game Development

9. Interoperability and Deployment

Index

Introduction

This chapter explains how to draw lines, arcs, curves, and text. These basic building blocks are further combined to create colorful and beautiful drawings. In this chapter we will cover:

Drawing lines
Drawing horizontal, vertical, and assorted lines
Drawing joins
Drawing arc1
Drawing arc2
Drawing a quadratic curve
Drawing a rainbow
Drawing a Bezier curve
Drawing a flag
Drawing text
Drawing 3D text with shadows
Adding shadows to objects
Drawing a house

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Authors (1)

Bhushan Purushottam Joshi

Bhushan Purushottam Joshi

Bhushan Purushottam Joshi is a teacher of computer science and has around 11 years of experience in teaching. He started his career as a programmer in a software firm but found true joy in teaching. He is a teacher by choice and not by chance. He teaches computer science courses such as MCA, MSc IT, BSc IT, and BSc CS at various colleges in Mumbai. He is a master at presenting technical as well as conceptual subjects in the most simplified manner. He has exemplary skills in relating daily life examples to technical concepts, which facilitates understanding of the subject matter. He enjoys teaching technical as well as conceptual subjects such as web design, Java, C#, C++, operating systems, computer networks, data structures, and ethical hacking. He is quite popular and appreciated among his students for his able guidance in their project work

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