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How i can optimize this animation? Canvas. Javascript. Cursor animation

This animation (based on the answer of
Вася Воронцов) loads the computer very much. I do this animation in canvas. Animation loads proccesor very much. Here the light follows the cursor and leaves traces. Animation works correctly but proccesor loads very much.
Deleting and changing the radii of circles is done by saving their coordinates.
The effect is controlled by changing the variables radius (circle radius), period (time for which the circle disappears), color (circle color), blur (blur radius) and cursor radius (pointer circle radius).
How to optimize this animation so that it loads the computer less?
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
var width = document.body.offsetWidth;
var height = document.body.offsetHeight;
var points = [],
cursor = [-10, -10];
var t = 0;
var radius = 100;
var period = 2100;
var color = "rgba(239, 91, 59, .5)";
var blur = 600;
canvas.style.width = canvas.width = width;
canvas.style.height = canvas.height = height;
context.fillStyle = color;
var filter = context.filter = "blur(" + 50 + "px)";
var dr = radius / period;
function draw() {
context.clearRect(0, 0, width, height);
let i = 0;
let deleted = 0;
let dt = -t + (t = window.performance.now());
context.beginPath();
while (i++ < points.length-1) {
let p = points[i];
p[2] += dt;
let r = radius - p[2] * dr;
context.moveTo(p[0], p[1]);
if (p[2] <= period) {
context.arc(p[0], p[1], r, 0, 2*Math.PI, true);
} else deleted = i;
}
context.fill();
points.splice(0, deleted);
context.beginPath();
context.arc(cursor[0], cursor[1], 20, 0, 2*Math.PI, true);
context.filter = "none";
context.fill();
context.filter = filter;
window.requestAnimationFrame(draw);
}
window.onmousemove = function(event) {
let x = event.pageX;
let y = event.pageY;
let backwardX = 0;
let backwardY = 0;
backwardX += (x-backwardX) / 5
backwardY += (y-backwardY) / 5
points.push([x, y, 0]);
cursor = [x, y];
}
t = window.performance.now();
window.requestAnimationFrame(draw);
body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
cursor: none;
margin: 0;
}
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
PS: Question in Russian.

It's slow because you have a lot of overdraw. Each frame, a large number of points is being drawn, and each point touches a lot of pixels.
You can achieve something that looks very similar if you realize that the canvas retains its contents between frames. So every frame, you could do something like this:
Fade the canvas towards white by drawing a nearly transparent white rectangle over it.
Draw one new blurred point, at the current cursor location.
The circle that follows the mouse can easily be achieved by overlaying a separate element on top of the canvas, for example a <div>. Use transform: translate(x, y); to move it, which is more performant than using left/top because it's a compositor-only property. Add will-change: transform; for an extra potential performance boost.

The canvas problem. ( ctx.clearRect does not working)

I want to create a break out game through javascript. I am wondering why the ctx.clearRect does not working. I want to put the rectangle in the y coordinate 430 to make it show at the bottom of the canvas. It moves when I have used the window.setInterval. But the rectangle move continuously.
Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for my poor English.
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var position = 0;
var yposition = 430;
var length = 80;
var width = 20;
var xSpeed = length*1;
var ySpeed = 0;
function R(){
ctx.fillStyle = "green";
ctx.fillRect(position, yposition, length, width);
};
function C(){
position += xSpeed;
yposition += ySpeed;
};
window.setInterval(() => {
ctx.clearRect(0, 430, length, width);
R();
C();
},150);
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(150, 50, 20, 0, Math.PI * 2, true);
ctx.closePath();
ctx.fillStyle = "blue";
ctx.fill();

The culprit are the parameters you're feeding into the clearRect function:
(0, 430, length, width)
Since length and width are hardcoded values of 80 and 20 respectively, the above means every time the intervals callback function gets fired it clears a rectangular area of 80 x 20 pixels at x = 0 and y = 430.
As your green paddle is moving you're actually clearing an area your paddle isn't located at anymore.
So you basically have two options:
Clear the whole canvas every frame
Clear the screen area your paddle has been before changing it's position
The second would look a little something like this:
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var position = 0;
var yposition = 150;
var length = 80;
var width = 20;
var xSpeed = length * 1;
var ySpeed = 0;
function R() {
ctx.fillStyle = "green";
ctx.fillRect(position, yposition, length, width);
}
function C() {
position += xSpeed;
yposition += ySpeed;
}
window.setInterval(() => {
ctx.clearRect(position, yposition, length, width);
C();
R();
}, 500);
<canvas id="canvas" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
I'd definitely recommend clearing the whole canvas though since there will be other on-screen objects beside the paddle.

How to scale an image for a canvas pattern?

I want to fill a Canvas with an Image and scale it to a certain width beforehand.
I am trying to achieve an effect where an image in the foreground of the canvas can be erased with the mouse to view an image in the background. This is why I need to use a pattern to fill my canvas instead of just using drawImage(). Everything works apart from the scaling of the foreground image. Here is my code for generating the pattern:
var blueprint_background = new Image();
blueprint_background.src = "myfunurl";
blueprint_background.width = window.innerWidth;
blueprint_background.onload = function(){
var pattern = context.createPattern(this, "no-repeat");
context.fillStyle = pattern;
context.fillRect(0, 0, window.innerWidth, 768);
context.fill();
};
This does exactly what it should do, except that the image keeps its original size.
As you see, I want the image to scale to window.innerWidth (which has the value 1920 when logging it).
If needed, I can provide the rest of the code, but since the error is most likely in this snippet, I decided not to post the rest.
EDIT: Here is my full code with the suggested changes. The front ground image now displays over the full width, however the erasing does not work anymore.
JavaScript (Note that I use jQuery instead of $):
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
var cwidth = window.innerWidth;
var cheight = 768;
function createCanvas(parent, width, height) {
var canvas = {};
canvas.node = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.context = canvas.node.getContext('2d');
canvas.node.width = width || 100;
canvas.node.height = height || 100;
parent.appendChild(canvas.node);
return canvas;
}
function init(canvas, fillColor) {
var ctx = canvas.context;
canvas.isDrawing = true;
jQuery('#canvas').children().css('position:absolute; top: ' + jQuery('#Top_bar').height() + 'px');
// define a custom fillCircle method
ctx.fillCircle = function(x, y, radius, fillColor) {
this.fillStyle = fillColor;
this.beginPath();
this.moveTo(x, y);
this.arc(x, y, radius, 0, Math.PI * 2, false);
this.fill();
};
// bind mouse events
canvas.onmousemove = function(e) {
if (!canvas.isDrawing) {
return;
}
var x = e.pageX - this.offsetLeft;
var y = e.pageY - jQuery('#Top_bar').outerHeight();
var radius = 30;
var fillColor = '#ff0000';
ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'destination-out';
ctx.fillCircle(x, y, radius, fillColor);
};
}
var container = document.getElementById('canvas');
jQuery('#canvas').css('position:absolute; top: ' + jQuery('#Top_bar').height() + 'px');
var canvas = createCanvas(container, cwidth, cheight);
init(canvas, '#ddd');
var fgimg = document.getElementById("fgimg");
fgimg.width = cwidth;
var context = canvas.node.getContext("2d");
let canvasP = document.getElementById("pattern");
canvasP.width = window.innerWidth;
canvasP.height = 768;
let ctxP = canvasP.getContext("2d");
ctxP.drawImage( fgimg, 0, 0,window.innerWidth,768 );
context.fillStyle = context.createPattern(canvasP,"no-repeat");
context.fillRect(0,0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
});
CSS:
#canvas {
background:url(http://ulmke-web.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Header-6.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
width: 100%;
height: 768px;
}
HTML:
<div id="canvas">
<canvas id="pattern">
</div>
<div style="display:none">
<img id="fgimg" src=" http://ulmke-web.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Header-5.jpg">
</div>

I would use two canvases. On the first one you draw your image and you use this canvas as an image to create the pattern. In order to scale the image you scale the size of the first canvas #pattern in my example.
For example you can do this for a 10/10 image:
canvasP.width = 10;
canvasP.height = 10;
ctxP.drawImage( redpoint, 2.5, 2.5 );
or you can do this for a 20/20 image:
canvasP.width = 20;
canvasP.height = 20;
ctxP.drawImage( redpoint, 5, 5,10,10 );
Furthermore, in my example I'm adding a little margin around the image.
let canvasP = document.getElementById("pattern");
if (canvasP && canvasP.getContext) {
let ctxP = canvasP.getContext("2d");
/*canvasP.width = 10;
canvasP.height = 10;
ctxP.drawImage( redpoint, 2.5, 2.5 ); */
canvasP.width = 20;
canvasP.height = 20;
ctxP.drawImage( redpoint, 5, 5,10,10 );
}
let canvas1 = document.getElementById("canvas");
if (canvas1 && canvas1.getContext) {
let ctx1 = canvas1.getContext("2d");
if (ctx1) {
ctx1.fillStyle = ctx1.createPattern(canvasP,"repeat");
ctx1.fillRect(0,0, canvas1.width, canvas1.height);
}
}
canvas{border:1px solid}
<img id="redpoint" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUA AAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO 9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==">
<canvas id="pattern"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
I hope it helps.

Rotate individual objects in canvas?

the rotate() function seems to rotate the whole drawing area. Is there a way to rotate paths individually? I want the center for the rotation to be the object, not the drawing area.
Using save() and restore() still makes rotate take into account the whole drawing area.
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.save();
context.fillStyle = 'red';
context.rotate(0.35);
context.fillRect(40,40, 100, 100);
context.restore();
context.save();
context.fillStyle = 'blue';
context.rotate(0.35);
context.fillRect(200, 40, 100, 100);
context.restore();
<canvas id="canvas" width="500" height="500"></canvas>

Use local space
Instead of drawing object at the position you want them draw everything around its own origin in its local space. The origin is at (0,0) and is the location that the object rotates around.
So if you have a rectangle that you draw with
function drawRect(){
context.fillRect(200, 40, 100, 100);
}
change it so that it is drawn at its origin
function drawRect(){
context.fillRect(-50,-50 , 100, 100);
}
Now you can easily draw it wherevery you want
Start with the setTransform function as that clears any existing tranforms and is a convenient way to set the location of the center of the object will be
ctx.setTransform(1,0,0,1,posX,posY); // clear transform and set center location
if you want to rotate it then add the rotation
ctx.rotate(ang);
and scale with
ctx.scale(scale,scale);
if you have two different scales you should scale before the rotate.
Now just call the draw function
drawRect();
and it is drawn with its center at posX,posY rotated and scaled.
You can combine it all into a function that has the x,y position, the width and the height, scale and rotation. You can include the scale in the setTransform
function drawRect(x,y,w,h,scale,rotation){
ctx.setTransform(scale,0,0,scale,x,y);
ctx.rotate(rotation);
ctx.strokeRect(-w/2,-h/2,w,h);
}
It also applies to an image as a sprite, and I will include a alpha
function drawImage(img,x,y,w,h,scale,rotation,alpha){
ctx.globalAlpha = alpha;
ctx.setTransform(scale,0,0,scale,x,y);
ctx.rotate(rotation);
ctx.drawImage(img,-img.width/2,-img.height/2,img.width,img.height);
}
On a 6 year old laptop that can draw 2000 sprites on firefox every 1/60th of a second, each rotated, scaled, positioned, and with a alpha fade.
No need to mess about with translating back and forward. Just keep all the objects you draw around there own origins and move that origin via the transform.
Update
Lost the demo so here it is to show how to do it in practice.
Just draws a lot of rotated, scaled translated, alphaed rectangles.
By using setTransform you save a lot of time by avoiding save and restore
// create canvas and add resize
var canvas,ctx;
function createCanvas(){
canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.style.position = "absolute";
canvas.style.left = "0px";
canvas.style.top = "0px";
canvas.style.zIndex = 1000;
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
}
function resizeCanvas(){
if(canvas === undefined){
createCanvas();
}
canvas.width = window.innerWidth;
canvas.height = window.innerHeight;
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
}
resizeCanvas();
window.addEventListener("resize",resizeCanvas);
// simple function to draw a rectangle
var drawRect = function(x,y,w,h,scale,rot,alpha,col){
ctx.setTransform(scale,0,0,scale,x,y);
ctx.rotate(rot);
ctx.globalAlpha = alpha;
ctx.strokeStyle = col;
ctx.strokeRect(-w/2,-h/2, w, h);
}
// create some rectangles in unit scale so that they can be scaled to fit
// what ever screen size this is in
var rects = [];
for(var i = 0; i < 200; i ++){
rects[i] = {
x : Math.random(),
y : Math.random(),
w : Math.random() * 0.1,
h : Math.random() * 0.1,
scale : 1,
rotate : 0,
dr : (Math.random() - 0.5)*0.1, // rotation rate
ds : Math.random()*0.01, // scale vary rate
da : Math.random()*0.01, // alpha vary rate
col : "hsl("+Math.floor(Math.random()*360)+",100%,50%)",
};
}
// draw everything once a frame
function update(time){
var w,h;
w = canvas.width; // get canvas size incase there has been a resize
h = canvas.height;
ctx.setTransform(1,0,0,1,0,0); // reset transform
ctx.clearRect(0,0,w,h); // clear the canvas
// update and draw each rect
for(var i = 0; i < rects.length; i ++){
var rec = rects[i];
rec.rotate += rec.dr;
drawRect(rec.x * w, rec.y * h, rec.w * w,rec.h * h,rec.scale + Math.sin(time * rec.ds) * 0.4,rec.rotate,Math.sin(time * rec.da) *0.5 + 0.5,rec.col);
}
requestAnimationFrame(update); // do it all again
}
requestAnimationFrame(update);

All transformations in canvas are for the whole drawing area. If you want to rotate around a point you're going to have to translate that point to the origin, do your rotation and translate it back. Something like this is what you want.

Use a rotate function to rotate all of the shape's points around its center.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
}
canvas
{
position: absolute;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
<script>
var canvas;
var context;
canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
context = canvas.getContext("2d");
canvas.width = window.innerWidth;
canvas.height = window.innerHeight;
var degreesToRadians = function(degrees)
{
return degrees*Math.PI/180;
}
var rotate = function(x, y, cx, cy, degrees)
{
var radians = degreesToRadians(degrees);
var cos = Math.cos(radians);
var sin = Math.sin(radians);
var nx = (cos * (x - cx)) + (sin * (y - cy)) + cx;
var ny = (cos * (y - cy)) - (sin * (x - cx)) + cy;
return new Vector2(nx, ny);
}
var Vector2 = function(x, y)
{
return {x:x,y:y};
}
var Shape = function(points, color)
{
this.color = color;
this.points = points;
};
Shape.prototype.rotate = function(degrees)
{
var center = this.getCenter();
for (var i = 0; i < this.points.length; i++)
{
this.points[i] = rotate(this.points[i].x,this.points[i].y,center.x,center.y,degrees);
}
context.beginPath();
context.arc(center.x,center.y,35,0,Math.PI*2);
context.closePath();
context.stroke();
}
Shape.prototype.draw = function()
{
context.fillStyle = this.color;
context.strokeStyle = "#000000";
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(this.points[0].x, this.points[0].y);
for (var i = 0; i < this.points.length; i++)
{
context.lineTo(this.points[i].x, this.points[i].y);
//context.fillText(i+1, this.points[i].x, this.points[i].y);
}
context.closePath();
context.fill();
context.stroke();
}
Shape.prototype.getCenter = function()
{
var center = {x:0,y:0};
for (var i = 0; i < this.points.length; i++)
{
center.x += this.points[i].x;
center.y += this.points[i].y;
}
center.x /= this.points.length;
center.y /= this.points.length;
return center;
}
Shape.prototype.translate = function(x, y)
{
for (var i = 0; i < this.points.length; i++)
{
this.points[i].x += x;
this.points[i].y += y;
}
}
var Rect = function(x,y,w,h,c)
{
this.color = c;
this.points = [Vector2(x,y),Vector2(x+w,y),Vector2(x+w,y+h),Vector2(x,y+h)];
}
Rect.prototype = Shape.prototype;
var r = new Rect(50, 50, 200, 100, "#ff0000");
r.draw();
r.translate(300,0);
r.rotate(30);
r.draw();
</script>
</body>
</html>

Use Clip Function to with Gradient Effect with JavaScript on Canvas

I'm trying to use the clip() function in canvas to create this effect, as pictured: there is a background image, and when your mouse hover on it, part of the image is shown. I got it to work as a circle, but I want this gradient effect you see the picture. How do I achieve that?
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./assets/stylesheet/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./assets/stylesheet/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="canvas" width="2000" height="1200"></canvas>
<script>
var can = document.getElementById('canvas');
var ctx = can.getContext('2d');
can.addEventListener('mousemove', function(e) {
var mouse = getMouse(e, can);
redraw(mouse);
}, false);
function redraw(mouse) {
console.log('a');
can.width = can.width;
ctx.canvas.width = window.innerWidth;
ctx.canvas.height = window.innerHeight;
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.rect(0,0,2000,1200);
ctx.arc(mouse.x, mouse.y, 200, 0, Math.PI*2, true)
ctx.clip();
ctx.fillRect(0,0,2000,1200);
}
var img = new Image();
img.onload = function() {
redraw({x: 0, y: 0})
}
img.src = 'http://placekitten.com/2000/1000';
function getMouse(e, canvas) {
var element = canvas,
offsetX = 0,
offsetY = 0,
mx, my;
// Compute the total offset. It's possible to cache this if you want
if (element.offsetParent !== undefined) {
do {
offsetX += element.offsetLeft;
offsetY += element.offsetTop;
} while ((element = element.offsetParent));
}
mx = e.pageX - offsetX;
my = e.pageY - offsetY;
return {
x: mx,
y: my
};
}
</script>

USING a RADIAL gradient
There are many ways to do that but the simplest is a gradient with an alpha.
First you need to define the size of the circle you wish to show.
var cirRadius = 300;
Then the location (canvas coordinates) where this circle will be centered
var posX = 100;
var posY = 100;
Now define the rgb colour
var RGB = [0,0,0] ; // black
Then an array of alpha values to define what is transparent
var alphas = [0,0,0.2,0.5,1]; // zero is transparent;
Now all you do is render the background image
// assume ctx is context and image is loaded
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0, ctx.canvas.width, ctx.canvas.height); // fill the canvas
Then create the gradient with it centered at the position you want and the second circle at the radius you want. The first 3 numbers define the center and radius of the start of the gradient, the last 3 define the center and radius of the end
var grad = ctx.createRadialGradient(posX,posY,0,posX,posY,cirRadius);
Now add the colour stops using the CSS color string rgba(255,255,255,1) where the last is the alpha value from 0 to 1.
var len = alphas.length-1;
alphas.forEach((a,i) => {
grad.addColorStop(i/len,`rgba(${RGB[0]},${RGB[1]},${RGB[2]},${a})`);
});
or for legacy browsers that do not support arrow functions or template strings
var i,len = alphas.length;
for(i = 0; i < len; i++){
grad.addColorStop(i / (len - 1), "rgba(" + RGB[0] + "," + RGB[1] + "," + RGB[2] + "," + alphas[i] + ")");
}
Then set the fill style to the gradient
ctx.fillStyle = grad;
then just fill a rectangle covering the image
ctx.fillRect(0,0,ctx.canvas.width,ctx.canvas.height);
And you are done.
By setting the position with via a mouse event and then doing the above steps 60times a second using window.requestAnimationFrame you can get the effect you are looking for in real time.
Here is an example
// create a full screen canvas
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.style.position = "absolute";
canvas.style.left = "0px";
canvas.style.top = "0px";
canvas.style.zIndex = 10;
canvas.width = window.innerWidth;
canvas.height = window.innerHeight;
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
// var to hold context
var ctx;
// load an image
var image = new Image();
image.src = "https://i.stack.imgur.com/C7qq2.png?s=328&g=1";
// add resize event
var resize = function(){
canvas.width = window.innerWidth;
canvas.height = window.innerHeight;
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
}
// add mouse event. Because it is full screen no need to bother with offsets
var mouse = function(event){
posX = event.clientX;
posY = event.clientY;
}
// incase the canvas size is changed
window.addEventListener("resize",resize);
// listen to the mouse move
canvas.addEventListener("mousemove",mouse)
// Call resize as that gets our context
resize();
// define the gradient
var cirRadius = 300;
var posX = 100; // this will be set by the mouse
var posY = 100;
var RGB = [0,0,0] ; // black any values from 0 to 255
var alphas = [0,0,0.2,0.5,0.9,0.95,1]; // zero is transparent one is not
// the update function
var update = function(){
if(ctx){ // make sure all is in order..
if(image.complete){ // draw the image when it is ready
ctx.drawImage(image,0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height)
}else{ // while waiting for image clear the canvas
ctx.clearRect(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
}
// create gradient
var grad = ctx.createRadialGradient(posX,posY,0,posX,posY,cirRadius);
// add colour stops
var len = alphas.length-1;
alphas.forEach((a,i) => {
grad.addColorStop(i/len,`rgba(${RGB[0]},${RGB[1]},${RGB[2]},${a})`);
});
// set fill style to gradient
ctx.fillStyle = grad;
// render that gradient
ctx.fillRect(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
}
requestAnimationFrame(update); // keep doing it till cows come home.
}
// start it all happening;
requestAnimationFrame(update);