I have a function that adds random images to my divs that disappear over time and create a mouse trail. My issue is: there are double images.
I'd like to add something that checks if the background url is already located on the page and if that's the case, skips to the next in the array and check it again until until it comes across one that is not there. So like a loop that refreshes every time a 'trail' is being created.
Maybe I am asking for something that won't work? What if all the images are already on the page? I don't really have an answer for it and I also don't have an idea how to solve that problem yet.
For now I tried adding a counter that checks the usedImages and counts them, but it seems to have flaws and I am unsure where to look or how to fix it. Does anyone have any tips on how to do this? Is it even possible?
My fiddle
var bgImages = new Array(
"https://www.studiourbanestrategien.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/schraegluftbild-1024x725.jpg",
"https://www.studiourbanestrategien.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pikto-608x1024.jpg",
"https://www.studiourbanestrategien.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Jettenhausen-EG-Grundriss-913x1024.jpg",
"https://www.studiourbanestrategien.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/lageplan-945x1024.jpg",
"https://www.studiourbanestrategien.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Jettenhausen-EG-Grundriss-913x1024.jpg",
"https://www.studiourbanestrategien.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Jettenhauser-Esch-Modell-2-1024x768.jpg",
"https://www.studiourbanestrategien.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DSCN3481-1024x768.jpg",
"https://www.studiourbanestrategien.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/zoom-in-3_ASTOC-1024x683.jpg",
"https://www.studiourbanestrategien.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IMG_1345-1024x768.jpg"
);
const numberOfImages = 10;
const timesPerSecond = .1;
var usedImages = {};
var usedImagesCount = 0;
function preloadImages(images) {
for (i = 0; i < images.length; i++) {
let l = document.createElement('link')
l.rel = 'preload'
l.as = 'image'
l.href = images[i]
document.head.appendChild(l);
}
}
function animate(e) {
var image = document.createElement('div');
image.classList.add('trail');
var sizew = 200;
var sizeh = 200;
image.style.transition = '3s ease';
image.style.position = 'fixed';
image.style.top = e.pageY - sizeh / 2 + 'px';
image.style.left = e.pageX - sizew / 2 + 'px';
image.style.width = sizew + 'px';
image.style.height = sizeh + 'px';
var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * (bgImages.length));
if (!usedImages[random]) {
image.style.backgroundImage = "url(" + bgImages[random] + ")";
usedImages[random] = true;
usedImagesCount++;
if (usedImagesCount === bgImages.length) {
usedImagesCount = 0;
usedImages = {};
}
} else {
animate(e);
}
console.log(usedImages);
console.log(usedImagesCount);
image.style.backgroundSize = 'cover';
image.style.pointerEvents = 'none';
image.style.zIndex = 1;
document.body.appendChild(image);
//opacity and blur animations
window.setTimeout(function() {
image.style.opacity = 0;
image.style.filter = 'blur(20px)';
}, 40);
window.setTimeout(function() {
document.body.removeChild(image);
}, 2100);
};
window.onload = function() {
preloadImages(bgImages);
var wait = false;
window.addEventListener('mousemove', function(e) {
if (!wait) {
wait = true;
setTimeout(() => {
wait = false
}, timesPerSecond * 800);
animate(e);
}
});
};
I want to show an image in the tablet of Pepper from his camera. I have done the Javascript code to process and show the image in a web view. The problem is that the image showed is strange:
I have written this code based on this example:
var CAMERA_ID = 'fger';
QiSession(function (session) {
session.service('ALMemory').then(function (ALMemory) {
// Listener to Choregraphe APP
ALMemory.subscriber('PepperQiMessaging/totablet').then(function(subscriber) {
subscriber.signal.connect(toTabletHandler);
});
// Says to Choregraphe that I'm listening with the id QR
ALMemory.raiseEvent('PepperQiMessaging/fromTabletResponse', 'QR');
// Video receiver function
session.service('ALVideoDevice').then(playVideo);
});
});
// This is the important part
function playVideo(video) {
video.subscribeCamera(
CAMERA_ID,
0, // cameraId kTop kBottom kInfred(color:17)
1, // Image of 640*480px
11, //RGB
10 // framerate 1~30
).then(function(result){
video.getImageRemote(result).then(function(image) {
if (image) {
var canvas = $('canvas')[0].getContext('2d');
var width = image[0];
var height = image[1];
var nb = image[2];
var imageData = image[6];
var read = 0;
var img = canvas.createImageData(width, height);
var pixs = img.data;
var binary = window.btoa(imageData);
var len = imageData.length;
var m = len/nb;
// Transformations to get the image in RGB
for (var i = 0; i < m; i++) {
pixs[i*4] = binary.charCodeAt(i*nb);
pixs[i*4+1] = binary.charCodeAt(i*nb+1);
pixs[i*4+2] = binary.charCodeAt(i*nb+2);
pixs[i*4+3] = 255;
}
canvas.putImageData(img, 0, 0);
}
video.unsubscribe(CAMERA_ID);
});
});
}
What I have to do to solve this problem?
At the end I found the solution. I found another example that it worked for me (the image is greyscale).
This is the algorithm to transform the bytes received form the camera to an image:
function getImage(ALVideoDevice, subscriberId) {
ALVideoDevice.getImageRemote(subscriberId).then(function (image) {
if(image) {
var imageWidth = image[0];
var imageHeight = image[1];
var imageBuf = image[6];
if (!context) {
context = document.getElementById('canvas').getContext('2d');
}
if (!imgData || imageWidth != imgData.width || imageHeight != imgData.height) {
imgData = context.createImageData(imageWidth, imageHeight);
}
var data = imgData.data;
for (var i = 0, len = imageHeight * imageWidth; i < len; i++) {
var v = imageBuf[i];
data[i * 4 + 0] = v;
data[i * 4 + 1] = v;
data[i * 4 + 2] = v;
data[i * 4 + 3] = 255;
}
context.putImageData(imgData, 0, 0);
}
if(previewRunning) {
setTimeout(function() { getImage(ALVideoDevice, subscriberId) }, 100);
}
});
}
Here is the complete Choregraphe project and the complete code.
I'm creating a audio player with visualizer.
But currently when I press the input to start the audio player my debug console returns:
Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Failed to load because no
supported source was found.
What I'm currently doing is setting the whole audio element up in JS / jQuery:
var bins = 512;
var backgroundColour = "#2C2E3B";
var barColour = "#EC1A55";
var floorLevel = 32;
var audioContext;
var audioBuffer;
var audioAnalyserNode;
var initialized = false;
var songText = "";
var textSize;
var freqLookup = [];
var canvasContext;
var isStream = true;
var canvasWidth;
var canvasHeight;
var src;
var audioElement;
var isPlaying = false;
var volume = 1;
function play() {
audioElement = document.createElement('audio');
// Opus support check stuff
var streamEndpoint = 'http://**.**.**.**:8003/stream';
var canPlayOpus = (typeof audioElement.canPlayType === "function" && audioElement.canPlayType('audio/ogg; codecs="opus"') !== "");
if(volume > 1) {
volume = volume / 100;
}
audioElement.src = streamEndpoint;
audioElement.crossOrigin = 'anonymous';
audioElement.volume = volume;
audioElement.play();
isPlaying = true;
setUpCanvas(audioElement);
}
function pause() {
audioElement.pause();
audioElement.currentTime = 0;
audioElement.src = '';
isPlaying = false;
}
function setUpCanvas(audioElement){
try {
initCanvas(document.getElementById("canvas"));
if(typeof audioContext === 'undefined') {
audioContext = new AudioContext();
}
if (audioElement) {
isStream = true;
setupAudioApi(true, audioElement);
}
} catch(e) {
console.log(e);
}
}
function setupAudioApi(isStream, audioElement) {
//var src;
if (isStream){
if(typeof src === 'undefined'){
src = audioContext.createMediaElementSource(audioElement);
audioContext.crossOrigin = "anonymous";
audioAnalyserNode = audioContext.createAnalyser();
audioAnalyserNode.fftSize = bins * 4;
src.connect(audioAnalyserNode);
audioAnalyserNode.connect(audioContext.destination);
}
}
if (!isStream) {
src.start();
}
initialized = true;
initFreqLookupTable();
}
function initCanvas(canvasElement) {
canvasContext = canvasElement.getContext('2d');
canvasElement.width = canvasElement.clientWidth;
canvasElement.height = canvasElement.clientHeight;
canvasWidth = canvasElement.width;
canvasHeight = canvasElement.height;
requestAnimationFrame(paint);
}
function getFreqPoint(start, stop, n, binCount) {
return start * Math.pow(stop / start, n / (binCount - 1));
}
function initFreqLookupTable() {
var lastPoint = 0;
var bins = audioAnalyserNode.frequencyBinCount;
for(var i = 0; i < bins / 2; i++) {
//Scale to perceived frequency distribution
var newFreq = getFreqPoint(20, 20000, i * 2, bins);
var point = Math.floor(bins * newFreq / 20000);
while (point <= lastPoint) {
point++;
}
lastPoint = point;
freqLookup.push(point);
}
}
//Render some fancy bars
function paint() {
requestAnimationFrame(paint);
if(!initialized) {
alert('Er is iets fout gegaan');
return false;
}
canvasContext.clearRect(0, 0, canvasWidth, canvasHeight);
canvasContext.fillStyle = backgroundColour;
canvasContext.fillRect(0, 0, canvasWidth, canvasHeight);
var bins = audioAnalyserNode.frequencyBinCount;
var data = new Uint8Array(bins);
audioAnalyserNode.getByteFrequencyData(data);
canvasContext.fillStyle = barColour;
for(var i = 0; i < bins; i++) {
var point = freqLookup[i];
//Pretty much any volume will push it over 128 so we set that as the bottom threshold
//I suspect I should be doing a logarithmic space for the volume as well
var height = Math.max(0, (data[point] - floorLevel));
//Scale to the height of the bar
//Since we change the base level in the previous operations, 256 should be changed to 160 (i think) if we want it to go all the way to the top
height = (height / (256 - floorLevel)) * canvasHeight * 0.8;
var width = Math.ceil(canvasWidth / ((bins / 2) - 1));
canvasContext.fillRect(i * width, canvasHeight - height, width, height);
}
}
The stream is in audio/mpeg format, it does load when I simply create an audio element in HTML with a src.
Can someone help me clarify and find the solution to the DOMException I'm getting. I have been searching other cases of this error but the fixes there didn't resolve the problem.
Try creating the audio tag like this:
var audio = new Audio('audio_file.mp3');
And try setting the type:
audio.type = "audio/mpeg";
I think that will fix your problem.
This creates an element, identical to the one you use in your code.
I suggest you put an extension on your stream.
I know this way works, and I don't know why the other way doesn't.
I am currently learning Javascript, and I was able to create a simple game where the shapes and color will change and it will move around. I am stuck on how to input images...please help me!! =( Thank you! =)
This is the site to the game I created http://sites.codeschool.org.uk/?site=imat3ap0t
I want to change the shapes to 3 jpg pictures I have and have it do the same thing. I am so stuck!
function getRandomColor() {
var letters = '0123456789ABCDEF'.split(''); //the numbers&letters are for color codes. split is the string (set of numbers and letters into an array)
var color = '#'; //color codes start with #
for (var i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
color += letters[Math.round(Math.random() * 16)];
}
return color;
}
var clickedTime;
var createdTime;
var reactionTime;
function makeBox() {
var time = Math.random();
time = time * 5000;
setTimeout(function () {
if (Math.random() > 0.5) {
document.getElementById("box").style.borderRadius = "100px";
} else {
document.getElementById("box").style.borderRadius = "0";
}
var top = Math.random();
top = top * 300;
var left = Math.random();
left = left * 500;
document.getElementById("box").style.top = top + "px";
document.getElementById("box").style.left = left + "px";
document.getElementById("box").style.backgroundColor = getRandomColor();
document.getElementById("box").style.display = "block";
createdTime = Date.now();
}, time);
}
document.getElementById("box").onclick = function () {
clickedTime = Date.now();
reactionTime = (clickedTime - createdTime) / 1000;
document.getElementById("time").innerHTML = reactionTime;
document.getElementById("box").style.display = "none";
makeBox();
}
makeBox();
Thank you guys for the response!
Well you will need to modify your function to something like this:
function getRandomImage() {
// All of the image options
// This is very similar to string of characters you have now
var images = ['path/to/image/1', 'path/to/image/2', 'path/to/image/3']
// Randomly select one image path
// By using images.length we don't have to hardcode the length like the "16" you're using, which is good incase the list changes
var imagePath = images[Math.floor(Math.random() * images.length)];
// Return random image path
return imagePath;
}
Then you will probably want an img tag somewhere in your document, instead of the div you are using now:
<img id="changing-image"></img>
Then you can use more javascript to find the image and change its src property:
var image = document.getElementById("changing-image");
image.src = getRandomImage();
We're working with the HTML5 canvas, displaying lots of images at one time.
This is working pretty well but recently we've had a problem with chrome.
When drawing images on to a canvas you seem to reach a certain point where the performance degrades very quickly.
It's not a slow effect, it seems that you go right from 60fps to 2-4fps.
Here's some reproduction code:
// Helpers
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Math/random
function getRandomInt(min, max) { return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min; }
// http://www.paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
window.requestAnimFrame = (function () { return window.requestAnimationFrame || window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame || window.mozRequestAnimationFrame || function (callback) { window.setTimeout(callback, 1000 / 60); }; })();
// https://github.com/mrdoob/stats.js
var Stats = function () { var e = Date.now(), t = e; var n = 0, r = Infinity, i = 0; var s = 0, o = Infinity, u = 0; var a = 0, f = 0; var l = document.createElement("div"); l.id = "stats"; l.addEventListener("mousedown", function (e) { e.preventDefault(); y(++f % 2) }, false); l.style.cssText = "width:80px;opacity:0.9;cursor:pointer"; var c = document.createElement("div"); c.id = "fps"; c.style.cssText = "padding:0 0 3px 3px;text-align:left;background-color:#002"; l.appendChild(c); var h = document.createElement("div"); h.id = "fpsText"; h.style.cssText = "color:#0ff;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px"; h.innerHTML = "FPS"; c.appendChild(h); var p = document.createElement("div"); p.id = "fpsGraph"; p.style.cssText = "position:relative;width:74px;height:30px;background-color:#0ff"; c.appendChild(p); while (p.children.length < 74) { var d = document.createElement("span"); d.style.cssText = "width:1px;height:30px;float:left;background-color:#113"; p.appendChild(d) } var v = document.createElement("div"); v.id = "ms"; v.style.cssText = "padding:0 0 3px 3px;text-align:left;background-color:#020;display:none"; l.appendChild(v); var m = document.createElement("div"); m.id = "msText"; m.style.cssText = "color:#0f0;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9px;font-weight:bold;line-height:15px"; m.innerHTML = "MS"; v.appendChild(m); var g = document.createElement("div"); g.id = "msGraph"; g.style.cssText = "position:relative;width:74px;height:30px;background-color:#0f0"; v.appendChild(g); while (g.children.length < 74) { var d = document.createElement("span"); d.style.cssText = "width:1px;height:30px;float:left;background-color:#131"; g.appendChild(d) } var y = function (e) { f = e; switch (f) { case 0: c.style.display = "block"; v.style.display = "none"; break; case 1: c.style.display = "none"; v.style.display = "block"; break } }; var b = function (e, t) { var n = e.appendChild(e.firstChild); n.style.height = t + "px" }; return { REVISION: 11, domElement: l, setMode: y, begin: function () { e = Date.now() }, end: function () { var f = Date.now(); n = f - e; r = Math.min(r, n); i = Math.max(i, n); m.textContent = n + " MS (" + r + "-" + i + ")"; b(g, Math.min(30, 30 - n / 200 * 30)); a++; if (f > t + 1e3) { s = Math.round(a * 1e3 / (f - t)); o = Math.min(o, s); u = Math.max(u, s); h.textContent = s + " FPS (" + o + "-" + u + ")"; b(p, Math.min(30, 30 - s / 100 * 30)); t = f; a = 0 } return f }, update: function () { e = this.end() } } }
// Firefox events suck
function getOffsetXY(eventArgs) { return { X: eventArgs.offsetX == undefined ? eventArgs.layerX : eventArgs.offsetX, Y: eventArgs.offsetY == undefined ? eventArgs.layerY : eventArgs.offsetY }; }
function getWheelDelta(eventArgs) { if (!eventArgs) eventArgs = event; var w = eventArgs.wheelDelta; var d = eventArgs.detail; if (d) { if (w) { return w / d / 40 * d > 0 ? 1 : -1; } else { return -d / 3; } } else { return w / 120; } }
// Reproduction Code
var stats = new Stats();
document.body.appendChild(stats.domElement);
var masterCanvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var masterContext = masterCanvas.getContext('2d');
var viewOffsetX = 0;
var viewOffsetY = 0;
var viewScaleFactor = 1;
var viewMinScaleFactor = 0.1;
var viewMaxScaleFactor = 10;
var mouseWheelSensitivity = 10; //Fudge Factor
var isMouseDown = false;
var lastMouseCoords = null;
var imageDimensionPixelCount = 25;
var paddingPixelCount = 2;
var canvasDimensionImageCount = 50;
var totalImageCount = Math.pow(canvasDimensionImageCount, 2);
var images = null;
function init() {
images = createLocalImages(totalImageCount, imageDimensionPixelCount);
initInteraction();
renderLoop();
}
function initInteraction() {
var handleMouseDown = function (eventArgs) {
isMouseDown = true;
var offsetXY = getOffsetXY(eventArgs);
lastMouseCoords = [
offsetXY.X,
offsetXY.Y
];
};
var handleMouseUp = function (eventArgs) {
isMouseDown = false;
lastMouseCoords = null;
}
var handleMouseMove = function (eventArgs) {
if (isMouseDown) {
var offsetXY = getOffsetXY(eventArgs);
var panX = offsetXY.X - lastMouseCoords[0];
var panY = offsetXY.Y - lastMouseCoords[1];
pan(panX, panY);
lastMouseCoords = [
offsetXY.X,
offsetXY.Y
];
}
};
var handleMouseWheel = function (eventArgs) {
var mouseX = eventArgs.pageX - masterCanvas.offsetLeft;
var mouseY = eventArgs.pageY - masterCanvas.offsetTop;
var zoom = 1 + (getWheelDelta(eventArgs) / mouseWheelSensitivity);
zoomAboutPoint(mouseX, mouseY, zoom);
if (eventArgs.preventDefault !== undefined) {
eventArgs.preventDefault();
} else {
return false;
}
}
masterCanvas.addEventListener("mousedown", handleMouseDown, false);
masterCanvas.addEventListener("mouseup", handleMouseUp, false);
masterCanvas.addEventListener("mousemove", handleMouseMove, false);
masterCanvas.addEventListener("mousewheel", handleMouseWheel, false);
masterCanvas.addEventListener("DOMMouseScroll", handleMouseWheel, false);
}
function pan(panX, panY) {
masterContext.translate(panX / viewScaleFactor, panY / viewScaleFactor);
viewOffsetX -= panX / viewScaleFactor;
viewOffsetY -= panY / viewScaleFactor;
}
function zoomAboutPoint(zoomX, zoomY, zoomFactor) {
var newCanvasScale = viewScaleFactor * zoomFactor;
if (newCanvasScale < viewMinScaleFactor) {
zoomFactor = viewMinScaleFactor / viewScaleFactor;
} else if (newCanvasScale > viewMaxScaleFactor) {
zoomFactor = viewMaxScaleFactor / viewScaleFactor;
}
masterContext.translate(viewOffsetX, viewOffsetY);
masterContext.scale(zoomFactor, zoomFactor);
viewOffsetX = ((zoomX / viewScaleFactor) + viewOffsetX) - (zoomX / (viewScaleFactor * zoomFactor));
viewOffsetY = ((zoomY / viewScaleFactor) + viewOffsetY) - (zoomY / (viewScaleFactor * zoomFactor));
viewScaleFactor *= zoomFactor;
masterContext.translate(-viewOffsetX, -viewOffsetY);
}
function renderLoop() {
clearCanvas();
renderCanvas();
stats.update();
requestAnimFrame(renderLoop);
}
function clearCanvas() {
masterContext.clearRect(viewOffsetX, viewOffsetY, masterCanvas.width / viewScaleFactor, masterCanvas.height / viewScaleFactor);
}
function renderCanvas() {
for (var imageY = 0; imageY < canvasDimensionImageCount; imageY++) {
for (var imageX = 0; imageX < canvasDimensionImageCount; imageX++) {
var x = imageX * (imageDimensionPixelCount + paddingPixelCount);
var y = imageY * (imageDimensionPixelCount + paddingPixelCount);
var imageIndex = (imageY * canvasDimensionImageCount) + imageX;
var image = images[imageIndex];
masterContext.drawImage(image, x, y, imageDimensionPixelCount, imageDimensionPixelCount);
}
}
}
function createLocalImages(imageCount, imageDimension) {
var tempCanvas = document.createElement('canvas');
tempCanvas.width = imageDimension;
tempCanvas.height = imageDimension;
var tempContext = tempCanvas.getContext('2d');
var images = new Array();
for (var imageIndex = 0; imageIndex < imageCount; imageIndex++) {
tempContext.clearRect(0, 0, imageDimension, imageDimension);
tempContext.fillStyle = "rgb(" + getRandomInt(0, 255) + ", " + getRandomInt(0, 255) + ", " + getRandomInt(0, 255) + ")";
tempContext.fillRect(0, 0, imageDimension, imageDimension);
var image = new Image();
image.src = tempCanvas.toDataURL('image/png');
images.push(image);
}
return images;
}
// Get this party started
init();
And a jsfiddle link for your interactive pleasure:
http://jsfiddle.net/BtyL6/14/
This is drawing 50px x 50px images in a 50 x 50 (2500) grid on the canvas. I've also quickly tried with 25px x 25px and 50 x 50 (2500) images.
We have other local examples that deal with bigger images and larger numbers of images and the other browser start to struggle with these at higher values.
As a quick test I jacked up the code in the js fiddle to 100px x 100px and 100 x 100 (10000) images and that was still running at 16fps when fully zoomed out. (Note: I had to lower the viewMinScaleFactor to 0.01 to fit it all in when zoomed out.)
Chrome on the other hand seems to hit some kind of limit and the FPS drops from 60 to 2-4.
Here's some info about what we've tried and the results:
We've tried using setinterval rather than requestAnimationFrame.
If you load 10 images and draw them 250 times each rather than 2500 images drawn once each then the problem goes away. This seems to indicate that chrome is hitting some kind of limit/trigger as to how much data it's storing about the rendering.
We have culling (not rendering images outside of the visual range) in our more complex examples and while this helps it's not a solution as we need to be able to show all the images at once.
We have the images only being rendered if there have been changes in our local code, against this helps (when nothing changes, obviously) but it isn't a full solution because the canvas should be interactive.
In the example code we're creating the images using a canvas, but the code can also be run hitting a web service to provide the images and the same behaviour (slowness) will be seen.
We've found it very hard to even search for this issue, most results are from a couple of years ago and woefully out of date.
If any more information would be useful then please ask!
EDIT: Changed js fiddle URL to reflect the same code as in the question. The code itself didn't actually change, just the formatting. But I want to be consistent.
EDIT: Updated jsfiddle and and code with css to prevent selection and call requestAnim after the render loop is done.
In Canary this code freezes it on my computer. As to why this happens in Chrome the simple answer is that it uses a different implementation than f.ex. FF. In-depth detail I don't know, but there is obviously room for optimizing the implementation in this area.
I can give some tip however on how you can optimize the given code to make it run in Chrome as well :-)
There are several things here:
You are storing each block of colors as images. This seem to have a huge performance impact on Canary / Chrome.
You are calling requestAnimationFrame at the beginning of the loop
You are clearing and rendering even if there are no changes
Try to (addressing the points):
If you only need solid blocks of colors, draw them directly using fillRect() instead and keep the color indexes in an array (instead of images). Even if you draw them to an off-screen canvas you will only have to do one draw to main canvas instead of multiple image draw operations.
Move requestAnimationFrame to the end of the code block to avoid stacking.
Use dirty flag to prevent unnecessary rendering:
I modified the code a bit - I modified it to use solid colors to demonstrate where the performance impact is in Chrome / Canary.
I set a dirty flag in global scope as true (to render the initial scene) which is set to true each time the mouse move occur:
//global
var isDirty = true;
//mouse move handler
var handleMouseMove = function (eventArgs) {
// other code
isDirty = true;
// other code
};
//render loop
function renderLoop() {
if (isDirty) {
clearCanvas();
renderCanvas();
}
stats.update();
requestAnimFrame(renderLoop);
}
//in renderCanvas at the end:
function renderCanvas() {
// other code
isDirty = false;
}
You will of course need to check for caveats for the isDirty flag elsewhere and also introduce more criteria if it's cleared at the wrong moment. I would store the old position of the mouse and only (in the mouse move) if it changed set the dirty flag - I didn't modify this part though.
As you can see you will be able to run this in Chrome and in FF at a higher FPS.
I also assume (I didn't test) that you can optimize the clearCanvas() function by only drawing the padding/gaps instead of clearing the whole canvas. But that need to be tested.
Added a CSS-rule to prevent the canvas to be selected when using the mouse:
For further optimizing in cases such as this, which is event driven, you don't actually need an animation loop at all. You can just call the redraw when the coords or mouse-wheel changes.
Modification:
http://jsfiddle.net/BtyL6/10/
This was a legitimate bug in chrome.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=247912
It has now been fixed and should be in a chrome mainline release soon.