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javascript loaded image is blurry (PNG)

I'm having a problem drawing sprites on canvas for a school project. My code:
treeImage = new Image();
treeImage.src = "sprites/treeSprites.png";
function rocks() { //to create the rock
this.x = 1920 * Math.random(); //random location on the width of the field
this.y = ground[Math.round(this.x/3)]; //ground is an array that stores the height of the ground
this.draw = function() {
ctx.save();
ctx.translate(this.x, this.y);
ctx.rotate(Math.tan((ground[Math.floor(this.x/3)]-ground[Math.floor(this.x/3)+1])/-3));
//^rotating based on its position on the ground^
ctx.drawImage(treeImage, 200, 50, 50, 50, -25, -50, 50, 50);
ctx.restore();
}
}
len = rockArray.length; //every frame
for (var i = 0;i<len;i++) {
rockArray[i].draw();
}
I only request 50×50px from the image. Exactly outside of the 50×50 there are black lines (which shouldn't interfere because I only request the square within the black lines) but when I draw the rock, the black outlines are visible. (For other reasons, I can't remove the black lines.)
I'm guessing the image JavaScript stores when I load the image is made blurry, and then when I request that part from the image, the lines around are visible too, as the blur "spreads" the lines into the square I request.
Is there a way I can prevent this?

Use ctx.imageSmoothingEnabled = false.
This will make the image sharp instead of smoothed (blurry).
(documentation)

If you draw a vertical line at x=5 and width = 1, the canvas actually draws the line from 4.5 to 5.5 this results in aliasing and a fuzzy line. A quick way to remedy that so it is a solid line is to offset the entire canvas by half a pixel before doing anthing else.
ctx.translate(-0.5, -0.5);
(documentation)

FabricJS prevent canvas.clipTo from clipping canvas.backgroundImage

I want to set a global clipTo in my Fabric-powered Canvas that will affect all user-added layers. I want a background image and an overlay image, which are unaffected by this clip mask.
Example:
Here's what's happening in this photo:
A canvas overlay image makes the t-shirt look naturally wrinkled. This overlay image is mostly transparent
A background image in the exact shape of the t-shirt was added, which is supposed to make the t-shirt look blue
A canvas.clipTo function was added, which clips the canvas to a rectangular shape
A user-added image (the famous Fabric pug) was added
I want the user-added image (the pug) to be limited to the rectangular area.
I do not want the background image (the blue t-shirt shape) affected by the clip area.
Is there a simple way to accomplish this? I really don't want to have to add a clipTo on every single user layer rather than one tidy global clipTo.
You can play with a JS fiddle showing the problem here.

I came here with the same need and ultimately found a solution for what I'm working on. Maybe it helps:
For SVG paths, within the clipTo function you can modify the ctx directly prior to calling render(ctx) and these changes apply outside the clipped path o. Like so:
var clipPath = new fabric.Path("M 10 10 L 100 10 L 100 100 L 10 100", {
fill: 'rgba(0,0,0,0)',
});
var backgroundColor = "rgba(0,0,0, 0.2)";
var opts = {
controlsAboveOverlay: true,
backgroundColor: 'rgb(255,255,255)',
clipTo: function (ctx) {
if (typeof backgroundColor !== 'undefined') {
ctx.fillStyle = backgroundColor;
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 300, 150);
}
clipPath.render(ctx);
}
}
var canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c', opts);
canvas.add(new fabric.Rect({
width: 50,
height: 50,
left: 30,
top: 30,
fill: 'rgb(255,0,0)'
}));
You can of course add an image instead of a color, or whatever else you want done. The trick I've found is to put it in the clipTo function on the ctx directly.
here's a fiddle

One (sorta hacky) solution: set a CSS background image on your canvas element, as shown in https://jsfiddle.net/qpnvo3cL/
<canvas id="c" width="500" height="500"></canvas>
<style>
background: url('http://fabricjs.com/assets/jail_cell_bars.png') no-repeat;
</style>
<script>
var canvas = window._canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c');
canvas.clipTo = function(ctx) {
ctx.rect(100,100,100,100);
}
</script>

Have you tried clipping a fabric Group? You could make the whole shirt one canvas. The center graphics would be one Group which you clip to where you want it. The white t-shirt and the blue overlay would of course not be part of the clipped group.
Here's an example of clipping a group:
var rect = new fabric.Rect({width:100, height: 100, fill: 'red' });
var circle = new fabric.Circle({ radius: 100, fill: 'green' });
var group1 = new fabric.Group([ circle, rect ], { left: 100, top: 100 });
canvas.add(group1);
group1.clipTo = function(ctx) {
ctx.rect(50,50,200,200);
};
See this jsfiddle I made: https://jsfiddle.net/uvepfag5/4/

I find clip rather slow so I tend to use globalCompositeOperation to do masking.
If you really need to use clip then use it in conjunction with save and restore.
// ctx is canvas context 2d
// pug is the image to be clipped
// draw your background
ctx.save(); // save state
ctx.rect(100,100,100,100); // set the clip area
ctx.clip(); // apply the clip
ctx.drawImage(pug,x,y); // draw the clipped image
ctx.restore(); // remove the clipping
// draw the other layers.
or you can
// draw background
ctx.globalCompositeOperation = "xor"; // set up the mask
ctx.fillRect(100,100,100,100); // draw the mask, could be an image.
// Alpha will effect the amount of masking,
// not available with clip
ctx.globalCompositeOperation = "destination-over";
ctx.drawImage(pug,x,y); // draw the image that is masked
ctx.globalCompositeOperation = "source-over";
// draw the stuff that needs to be over everything.
The advantage of composite operations is you have control over the clipping at a per pixel level, including the amount of clipping via the pixel alpha value

Add click event to canvas or make area map

I write this html code :
<div id="container">
<canvas id="imageView" width="1181" height="1181">
<p>Unfortunately, your browser is currently unsupported by our web
application.</p>
</canvas>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function() {
var c = document.getElementById('imageView');
var cxt = c.getContext('2d');
var img = new Image();
img.src = "map.jpg";
cxt.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
};
</script>
</div>
And write this javascript :
this.mousemove = function(ev) {
if (!tool.started) {
return;
}
var x = Math.min(ev._x, tool.x0),
y = Math.min(ev._y, tool.y0),
w = Math.abs(ev._x - tool.x0),
h = Math.abs(ev._y - tool.y0);
context.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
if (!w || !h) {
return;
}
context.clearRect(x, y, w, h);
context.strokeRect(x, y, w, h);
this code is make a rectangle . I want change this rectangle to a area map , that when I click on the area do something , (for example open google.com) .

If I understand you correctly you want to invoke a function when you hit a pixel on the actual map - not just in the map area.
Method 1
You can check a map click in more than one way. You can simply check for the pixel value at the click point to check if it is inside the area you want it to be by comparing the map color value.
I provided an example below for this method.
Method 2
You can pre-define a polygon which traces the outline of the map area you want to check.
Then build a path (ctx.beginPath(); and ctx.lineTo(..); etc.) to allow the use of the method:
if (ctx.isPointInPath(x, y)) { ... };
This is a good method if you have small regions to check.
Method 3
Store a separate image of the map containing only a matte (sort of an alpha map), That is usually black (or transparent) for non-clickable areas, white for clickable areas.
This is useful if your map is complex color-wise and a simple pixel value check is not trivial.
And speaking of which: you can even provide different solid color values for different areas so that you can define red color = USA, blue = Argentina, etc. As these are not visible to the user the only thing that matters is that the color value can be recognized (for this reason don't save images for this use with an ICC color profile).
Then project the mouse position from the click onto the matte image (which is basically an off-screen canvas where the matte image is drawn into) and check for the color (white or other color).
Example for method 1
This is a simple example, but in any case there are a couple of things you need to know in advance:
That the image is loaded from same server as the page or from a domain that allow cross-origin use. Or else you cannot grab a pixel from the map due to security reasons.
You need to know what color or alpha value to check for. If the map is solid and everything is transparent you just need to check for alpha value above zero (as in this example), and if not just check the RGB value of the region you want to trigger an action with.
ONLINE DEMO HERE
HTML:
<canvas width=725 height=420 id="demo"></canvas>
JavaScript:
var ctx = demo.getContext('2d'),
img = new Image();
/// we need to wait for the image to actually load:
img.onload = function() {
/// image is loaded and we can raw it onto canvas
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
/// enable mouse click
demo.onclick = function(e) {
/// adjust mouse position to be relative to canvas
var rect = demo.getBoundingClientRect(),
x = e.clientX - rect.left,
y = e.clientY - rect.top;
/// grab a pixel
var data = ctx.getImageData(x, y, 1, 1).data;
/// check it's alpha value to see if we're in a map point
/// this of course assumes the map has transparent areas.
/// if not just check for the color values instead.
if (data[3] > 0) alert('We hit map');
}
}
/// we need crossOrigin allowed image or we can't grab pixel later
img.crossOrigin = 'anonymous';
img.src = 'http://i.imgur.com/x8Ap3ij.png';
Just replace the alert with:
window.open('http://google.com/');
if you want it to open a new window/tab.

You can turn canvas into an anchor link by using addEventListener to listen for clicks on the canvas.
Then you can use window.open to open google in a new browser tab.
Also, you need to use image.onload to give your image time to load before using drawing it.
var canvas=document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx=canvas.getContext("2d");
var img=new Image();
img.onload=function(){
ctx.drawImage(img,0,0);
canvas.addEventListener("click",function(){
window.open("http://google.com");
});
}
img.src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/139992952/stackoverflow/google.jpg";

Transform (Move/Scale/Rotate) shapes with KineticJS

I'm trying to build a transform manager for KineticJS that would build a bounding box and allow users to scale, move, and rotate an image on their canvas. I'm getting tripped up with the logic for the anchor points.
http://jsfiddle.net/mharrisn/whK2M/
I just want to allow a user to scale their image proportionally from any corner, and also rotate as the hold-drag an anchor point.
Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
Thank you!

Here is a proof of concept of a rotational control I've made:
http://codepen.io/ArtemGr/pen/ociAD
While the control is dragged around, the dragBoundFunc is used to rotate the content alongside it:
controlGroup.setDragBoundFunc (function (pos) {
var groupPos = group.getPosition()
var rotation = degrees (angle (groupPos.x, groupPos.y, pos.x, pos.y))
status.setText ('x: ' + pos.x + '; y: ' + pos.y + '; rotation: ' + rotation); layer.draw()
group.setRotationDeg (rotation); layer.draw()
return pos
})

I am doing the same thing, and I've posted a question which is allmoast the same, but I found a link where you have the resize and move tool ready developed. So I have used the same. It does not contain the rotate tool however, but this can be a good start for you too, it is very simple and logical. Here is the link: http://www.html5canvastutorials.com/labs/html5-canvas-drag-and-drop-resize-and-invert-images/
I will come back with the rotation tool as well if I manage to get it working perfectly.

I hope I am not late yet for posting this code snippet that I made. I had the same problem with you guys dealing with this kind of task. Its been 3 days since I tried so many workarounds to mimic the fabricjs framework capability when dealing with images and objects. I could use Fabricjs though but it seems that Kineticjs is more faster/consistent to deal with html5.
Luckily, we already have existing plugin/tool that we could easily implement together with kineticjs and this is jQuery Transform tool. SUPER THANKS TO THE AUTHOR OF THIS! Just search this on google and download it.
I hope the code below that I created would help lots of developers out there who is pulling their hair off to solve this kind of assignment.
$(function() {
//Declare components STAGE, LAYER and TEXT
var _stage = null;
var _layer = null;
var simpleText = null;
_stage = new Kinetic.Stage({
container: 'canvas',
width: 640,
height: 480
});
_layer = new Kinetic.Layer();
simpleText = new Kinetic.Text({
x: 60,
y: 55,
text: 'Simple Text',
fontSize: 30,
fontFamily: 'Calbiri',
draggable: false,
name:'objectInCanvas',
id:'objectCanvas',
fill: 'green'
});
//ADD LAYER AND TEXT ON STAGE
_layer.add(simpleText);
_stage.add(_layer);
_stage.draw();
//Add onclick event listener to the Stage to remove and add transform tool to the object
_stage.on('click', function(evt) {
//Remove all objects' transform tool inside the stage
removeTransformToolSelection();
// get the shape that was clicked on
ishape = evt.targetNode;
//Add and show again the transform tool to the selected object and update the stage layer
$(ishape).transformTool('show');
ishape.getParent().moveToTop();
_layer.draw();
});
function removeTransformToolSelection(){
//Search all objects inside the stage or layer who has the name of "objectInCanvas" using jQuery iterator and hide the transform tool.
$.each(_stage.find('.objectInCanvas'), function( i, child ) {
$(child).transformTool('hide');
});
}
//Event listener/Callback when selecting image using file upload element
function handleFileSelect(evt) {
//Remove all objects' transform tool inside the stage
removeTransformToolSelection();
//Create image object for selected file
var imageObj = new Image();
imageObj.onload = function() {
var myImage = new Kinetic.Image({
x: 0,
y: 0,
image: imageObj,
name:'objectInCanvas',
draggable:false,
id:'id_'
});
//Add to layer and add transform tool
_layer.add(myImage);
$(myImage).transformTool();
_layer.draw();
}
//Adding source to Image object.
var f = document.getElementById('files').files[0];
var name = f.name;
var url = window.URL;
var src = url.createObjectURL(f);
imageObj.src = src;
}
//Attach event listener to FILE element
document.getElementById('files').addEventListener('change', handleFileSelect, false);
});

Removing an image from a canvas in HTML5

there's an example, which loads 2 images:
canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var img1 = new Image();
img.src = "/path/to/image/img1.png";
img.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
};
var img2 = new Image();
img2.src = "/path/to/image/img2.png";
img2.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(img2, 100, 100);
};
I need to remove(replace) img2 from canvas. What is the best way to do it?

I think maybe you misunderstand what a Canvas is.
A canvas is essentially a 2 dimensional grid of pixels along an 'X' axis and a 'Y' axis. You use the API to draw pixels onto that canvas, so when you draw an image you're basically drawing the pixels that make up that image onto your canvas. The reason there is NO method that lets you just remove an image, is because the Canvas doesn't know there's an image there in the first place, it just see pixels.
This is unlike the HTML DOM (Document Object Model) where everything is a HTML element, or an actual 'thing' you can interact with, hook-up script events to etc. this isn't the case with stuff you draw onto a Canvas. When draw a 'thing' onto a Canvas, that thing doesn't become something you can target or hook into, it's just pixels. To get a 'thing' you need to represent your 'thing' in some way such as a JavaScript object, and maintain a collection of these JS objects somewhere. This how how Canvas games work. This lack of a DOM-like structure for Canvas makes rendering very fast, but can be a pain for implementing UI elements that you can easily hook into and interact with, remove etc. For that you might want to try SVG.
To answer your question, simply paint a rectangle onto your Canvas that covers up your image by using the same X/Y coords and dimensions you used for your original image, or try Pointy's solution. 'Cover-up' is probably the wrong terminology, since you're actually replacing the pixels (there are no layers in Canvas).

It's not clear what you want the canvas to show when the image is gone. If you want it to be transparent, you could get the image data and fill it with transparent pixels:
var img = ctx.createImageData(w, h);
for (var i = img.data.length; --i >= 0; )
img.data[i] = 0;
ctx.putImageData(img, 100, 100);
where "w" and "h" would be the width and height of your original image.
edit — if you just want another image there, why not just put one there? It will overwrite whatever pixels are there on the canvas.

You can use clearRect() function to clear the image area.Rather then clearing whole context you can clear only the image area using this:
ctx.clearRect(xcoordinate_of_img1,ycoordinate_of_img1,xcoordinate_of_img1 + img1.width ,ycoord_of_img1 +img1.height );

If what "Sunday Ironfoot" said is right, then the best way to remove an image is by drawing the images once again from scratch. For this, you need to have an array of images and draw only the ones you use. For example,
function EmptyClass{};
var img=new Array();
img[0]=new EmptyClass;
img[0].i=new Image();
img[0].src="yourfile1.jpg";
img[0].enabled=true;
img[1]=new EmptyClass;
img[1].i=new Image();
img[1].src="yourfile2.jpg";
img[1].enabled=false;// <-------- not enabled, should not be drawn equivalent to removing
img[2]=new EmptyClass;
img[2].i=new Image();
img[2].src="yourfile3.jpg";
img[2].enabled=true;
for(var i=0;i<3;i++){
if(img[i].enabled)ctx.drawImage(img[i], 100, 100);
}
P.S. I am creating an engine for javascript canvas. Will post it within a week
Peace

You can erase an image by drawing the same image again, using a different globalCompositeOperation
ctx.globalCompositeOperation ="xor"
ctx.drawImage(img2, 100, 100);
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/globalCompositeOperation

Unlike drawing things yourself, if you 'replace' THE image on a canvas, the old one is still there.
Canvas c2;
...
if (null != Image2) {
var ctx = c2.getContext("2d");
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, c2.width, c2.height);
}

Can you overlay canvas objects (I guess I should try before asking, you can -1 one me for being lazy). I guess I'd be interested in have one canvas element as a background, and then another for a layer objects that pop in and out of view. Might be a little more efficient then having to redraw every image if one gets deleted or moved. I'll play around and see what I can find.

There is ``ctx.clearRect(x, y, w, h)'' but this is not a good way to remove the shape, because it will remove any full or partial shapes in the same area of the removed shape. This shouldn't happen, and may remove one or more shapes, I've found it's best to save all your shapes in a list that usually comes from the database using backend language or ajax request, and add for it's shape object an identifier, when you need to remove a shape just remove that shape from the list using the id or the index, then Redraw the canvas with this new array of shapes without a deleted shape, the next time the page loads, this shape will not be added to this list, because it should be deleted from database.
const projectStamps = [{image_id: 'scream', x: 100, y: 100, id: 1}, {image_id: 'scream', x: 100, y: 100, id: 2}, {image_id: 'scream', x: 50, y: 0, id: 3}, {image_id: 'scream', x: 150, y: 0, id: 4}];
let currentShapes = [];
const canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
function validStampObj(stamp){
if (typeof(stamp.x) !== 'number' || typeof(stamp.y) !== 'number' || typeof(stamp.image_id) === 'undefined' || !document.getElementById(stamp.image_id)){
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
function addStamp(stamp){
if (!validStampObj(stamp)){
console.log("can not add stamp, invalid object");
return false;
}
const image = document.getElementById(stamp.image_id);
stamp['w'] = image.getBoundingClientRect().width;
stamp['h'] = image.getBoundingClientRect().height;
ctx.drawImage(image, stamp.x, stamp.y, stamp.w, stamp.h);
currentShapes.push(stamp);
return stamp;
}
let id = 1;
window.onload = function() {
drawProject();
};
function clearCanvas(){
currentShapes = [];
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
return true;
}
const projectImage = document.getElementById("project_image");
function drawProject(){
if (!projectImage){console.log('missing project image element');return false;}
clearCanvas();
ctx.drawImage(projectImage,0,0);
projectStamps.forEach( (stamp)=>{
addStamp(stamp);
});
}
function removeStamp(targetId){
let targetI = false;
for (let i=0; i<projectStamps.length; i++){
if (projectStamps[i].id == targetId){
targetI = i;
break;
}
}
if (targetI !== false){
/* remove the stamp from drawing stamps list and redraw the data */
projectStamps.splice(targetI,1);
drawProject();
}
}
setTimeout( ()=>{
removeStamp(3);
console.log("removed icon with id 3");
}, 2500 );
<p>Image to use:</p>
<img id="scream" width="35" height="35"
src="https://i.ibb.co/wYyc259/iconimage.png" alt="The Scream">
<img id="project_image" width="450" height="300"
src="https://i.ibb.co/sK5HtQy/bulding-image.png" style="position:absolute;left:-15455px;">
<p>Canvas:</p>
<button onclick="drawProject()">Redraw things</button>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="450" height="300"
style="border:1px solid #d3d3d3;">
Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas tag.
</canvas>
notes if you used clearRect in this example it will remove the part of main image of the canvas not just the icon with id 3 like this code does hope it helps.