Lynda.com : HTML5 Graphics and Animation with Canvas
Date: 4 June 2011 | Posted by: cyb4post4
Lynda.com : HTML5 Graphics and Animation with Canvas
Author: Joe Marini- 443 Mb - English
One of the most exciting additions that HTML5 offers to designers
is the ability to draw free-form graphics on a drawing surface
known as the Canvas. In this course, author Joe Marini introduces
the technical concepts behind Canvas and shows how to perform
drawing operations directly in a web page. The course covers
drawing basic and complex shapes, setting colors and styles,
adding shadows, patterns, and gradients, more advanced techniques
such as scaling, rotating, and compositing objects, and how to
incorporate Canvas elements in a slideshow and an animation.
Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
* Understanding the differences between Canvas and SVG Graphics
* Drawing shapes
* Drawing arcs and paths
* Rendering text
* Using clipping paths
* Drawing images and video
* Transforming objects with the translate tag
* Manipulating raw pixels
* Applying a custom transformation
* Creating an animation or slideshow control with Canvas
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