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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.

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>

Changing Stroke color in HTML 5 Canvas

I'm trying to draw a circle, kind of a clock, i start at point p1 and draw an arc in black using the canvas 2d context, when i reach the point p1 (complete circle tour) i change color to white, and continue to draw, that should give it an effect like if the black arc is being erased, however this doesn't work as expected, because when i change the context's color, everything change...
how to keep the first circle, in a color, and draw another one on topof it with different color, without changing the color in the whole scene ?
here's my attempt
<!DOCTYPE html />
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var i = 0.01;
var Color = "Black";
var x = 75; // x coordinate
var y = 75; // y coordinate
var radius = 20; // Arc radius
var startAngle = 0; // Starting point on circle
var anticlockwise = false; // clockwise or anticlockwise
function draw() {
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.beginPath();
var endAngle = i; // End point on circleMath.PI + (Math.PI * 5) /
if (Math.floor(endAngle) >= 6) {
i = 0.01;
if (Color == "Black") {
Color = "White";
} else {
Color = "Black";
}
}
ctx.strokeStyle = Color;
ctx.arc(x, y, radius, startAngle, endAngle, anticlockwise);
ctx.stroke();
i = i + 0.05;
//document.getElementById('display').innerHTML = Math.floor(endAngle) + " " + Color;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="window.setInterval(function(){draw()},100);">
<canvas id="canvas" width="150" height="150"></canvas>
<span id="display"></span>
</body>
</html>

You're having a little trouble with your angles. You're essentially redrawing the arc from 0 to your endAngle every time. So at the end when endAngle is greater than 6 you're redrawing from 0-6 with a white arc.
The easy fix is to just set endAngle = 0.01 when you reset i. You may also want to update your startAngle on each iteration to be the end of your last arc, just so that it doesn't draw over itself all the time.
Hope this helps!

Using Shaded's answer, you could do the following:
if (Math.floor(endAngle) > 6.0) {
i = 0.01;
endAngle = i;
startAngle = 0;
if (Color == "Black") {
Color = "White";
ctx.lineWidth = 4;
} else {
Color = "Black";
ctx.lineWidth = 1;
}
}
ctx.strokeStyle = Color;
ctx.arc(x, y, radius, startAngle, endAngle, anticlockwise);
ctx.stroke();
startAngle = endAngle - 0.1;
Because the white will anti-alias with the black behind it, you'll get the jaggies at the edges if the line widths are the same. Increasing the line width alleviates this issue.
EDIT: Updated to remove excessive over-painting as per Shaded's comments.

Executing function onclick when function is in document.ready

I'm fairly new to Javascript so I was hoping for a bit of help. I've been playing with animating a graph using canvas and javascript. I have it so that when the page loads, it will fill up the graph to a pre-determined percentage.
I also have some buttons that have an onclick on them, and the aim is for clicking these buttons to execute the animating function again but with a different percentage. However, clicking on them doesn't so a thing.
Any help you could give me on this would be great.
Code:
window.onload = function(){
//canvas initialization
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
//dimensions
var W = canvas.width;
var H = canvas.height;
//Variables
var degrees = 0;
var new_degrees = 0;
var difference = 0;
var color = "#c70505"; //green looks better to me
var bgcolor = "#222";
var text;
var animation_loop, redraw_loop;
function init()
{
//Clear the canvas everytime a chart is drawn
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, W, H);
//Background 360 degree arc
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.strokeStyle = bgcolor;
ctx.lineWidth = 30;
ctx.arc(W/2, H/2, 100, 0, Math.PI*2, false); //you can see the arc now
ctx.stroke();
//gauge will be a simple arc
//Angle in radians = angle in degrees * PI / 180
var radians = degrees * Math.PI / 180;
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.strokeStyle = color;
ctx.lineWidth = 30;
//The arc starts from the rightmost end. If we deduct 90 degrees from the angles
//the arc will start from the topmost end
ctx.arc(W/2, H/2, 100, 0 - 90*Math.PI/180, radians - 90*Math.PI/180, false);
//you can see the arc now
ctx.stroke();
//Lets add the text
ctx.fillStyle = color;
ctx.font = "50px bebas";
text = Math.floor(degrees/360*100) + "%";
//Lets center the text
//deducting half of text width from position x
text_width = ctx.measureText(text).width;
//adding manual value to position y since the height of the text cannot
//be measured easily. There are hacks but we will keep it manual for now.
ctx.fillText(text, W/2 - text_width/2, H/2 + 15);
}
function draw(percent)
{
//Cancel any movement animation if a new chart is requested
if(typeof animation_loop != undefined) clearInterval(animation_loop);
//random degree from 0 to 360
new_degrees = percent
difference = new_degrees - degrees;
//This will animate the gauge to new positions
//The animation will take 1 second
//time for each frame is 1sec / difference in degrees
animation_loop = setInterval(animate_to, 1000/difference);
}
//function to make the chart move to new degrees
function animate_to()
{
//clear animation loop if degrees reaches to new_degrees
if(degrees == new_degrees)
clearInterval(animation_loop);
if(degrees < new_degrees)
degrees++;
else
degrees--;
init();
}
draw(100);
}
<canvas id="canvas" width="300" height="300"></canvas>
<button onclick="draw(360)">100%</button>
<button onclick="draw(270)">75%</button>

The draw function is out of scope as soon as the anonymous function you have assigned to window.onload finishes executing. If you declare the functions in the global scope instead, you'll be able to call them anywhere. Here's a working fiddle.

Try my update:
<script>
//canvas initialization
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
//dimensions
var W = canvas.width;
var H = canvas.height;
//Variables
var degrees = 0;
var new_degrees = 0;
var difference = 0;
var color = "#c70505"; //green looks better to me
var bgcolor = "#222";
var text;
var animation_loop, redraw_loop;
function init()
{
//Clear the canvas everytime a chart is drawn
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, W, H);
//Background 360 degree arc
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.strokeStyle = bgcolor;
ctx.lineWidth = 30;
ctx.arc(W/2, H/2, 100, 0, Math.PI*2, false); //you can see the arc now
ctx.stroke();
//gauge will be a simple arc
//Angle in radians = angle in degrees * PI / 180
var radians = degrees * Math.PI / 180;
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.strokeStyle = color;
ctx.lineWidth = 30;
//The arc starts from the rightmost end. If we deduct 90 degrees from the angles
//the arc will start from the topmost end
ctx.arc(W/2, H/2, 100, 0 - 90*Math.PI/180, radians - 90*Math.PI/180, false);
//you can see the arc now
ctx.stroke();
//Lets add the text
ctx.fillStyle = color;
ctx.font = "50px bebas";
text = Math.floor(degrees/360*100) + "%";
//Lets center the text
//deducting half of text width from position x
text_width = ctx.measureText(text).width;
//adding manual value to position y since the height of the text cannot
//be measured easily. There are hacks but we will keep it manual for now.
ctx.fillText(text, W/2 - text_width/2, H/2 + 15);
}
function draw(percent)
{
//Cancel any movement animation if a new chart is requested
if(typeof animation_loop != undefined) clearInterval(animation_loop);
//random degree from 0 to 360
new_degrees = percent
difference = new_degrees - degrees;
//This will animate the gauge to new positions
//The animation will take 1 second
//time for each frame is 1sec / difference in degrees
animation_loop = setInterval(animate_to, 1000/difference);
}
//function to make the chart move to new degrees
function animate_to()
{
//clear animation loop if degrees reaches to new_degrees
if(degrees == new_degrees)
clearInterval(animation_loop);
if(degrees < new_degrees)
degrees++;
else
degrees--;
init();
}
draw(100);
</script>
<canvas id="canvas" width="300" height="300"></canvas>
<button onclick="draw(360)">100%</button>
<button onclick="draw(270)">75%</button>

How to animate and erase an arc in HTML5

Here is my question : I have an animation, that builds are circle. See : http://jsfiddle.net/2TUnE/
JavaScript:
var currentEndAngle = 0
var currentStartAngle = 0;
var currentColor = 'black';
setInterval(draw, 50);
function draw() { /***************/
var can = document.getElementById('canvas1'); // GET LE CANVAS
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas1");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
var x = canvas.width / 2;
var y = canvas.height / 2;
var radius = 75;
var startAngle = currentStartAngle * Math.PI;
var endAngle = (currentEndAngle) * Math.PI;
currentEndAngle = currentEndAngle + 0.01;
var counterClockwise = false;
context.beginPath();
context.arc(x, y, radius, startAngle, endAngle, counterClockwise);
context.lineWidth = 15;
// line color
context.strokeStyle = currentColor;
context.stroke();
/************************************************/
}
When the circle is completely drawn, I would like it to start erasing, the same way it was created (so slowly removes the black). Once the whole circle is erased, i would create the black circle again, creating some kind of "waiting / loading" effect.
What i tried to do, is check if the currentEndAngle is 2 (so the circle is complete), and then move the startAngle, but it didn't work.
Any idea?
Thanks!
EDIT : Forgot to say, the animation is gonna be over an image, so it has to be "transparent" and not white

Look whats up in this JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/fNTsA/
This method is basically your code, only we use a modulo to control state. Checking if the radius is 2 is only half-right, to toggle drawing white or drawing black you should do half the radius modulo 2. The first time around you have floor(0..2/2) % 2 == 0, the second you have floor(2..4/2) % 2 == 1, and so on.
Also because the line is antialiased, it helps to have the start angle overwrite what's been drawn already, otherwise you get extra white lines you probably don't want. For the same reason, when drawing the white circle, you should draw a slightly thicker line (smaller radius, thicker line). Otherwise the antialiasing leaves behind some schmutz -- a faint outline of the erased circle.
I put the radius and width into globals which you'd put at the top:
var lineRadius = 75;
var lineWidth = 15;
And likewise this is my modulo thing, pretty standard:
currentStartAngle = currentEndAngle - 0.01;
currentEndAngle = currentEndAngle + 0.01;
if (Math.floor(currentStartAngle / 2) % 2) {
currentColor = "white";
radius = lineRadius - 1;
width = lineWidth + 3;
} else {
currentColor = "black";
radius = lineRadius;
width = lineWidth;
}

Fun challenge! Try the following (updated fiddle here). I've tried to include plenty of comments to show my thinking.
// Moved these to global scope as you don't want to re-declare
// them in your draw method each time your animation loop runs
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas1");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
var x = canvas.width / 2;
var y = canvas.height / 2;
var radius = 75;
// Use objects to hold our draw and erase props
var drawProps = {
startAngle: 0,
speed: 2,
color: 'black',
counterClockwise: false,
globalCompositeOperation: context.globalCompositeOperation,
lineWidth: 15
};
var eraseProps = {
startAngle: 360,
speed: -2,
color: 'white',
counterClockwise: true,
globalCompositeOperation: "destination-out",
lineWidth: 17 // artefacts appear unless we increase lineWidth for erase
};
// Let's work in degrees as they're easier for humans to understand
var degrees = 0;
var props = drawProps;
// start the animation loop
setInterval(draw, 50);
function draw() { /***************/
degrees += props.speed;
context.beginPath();
context.arc(
x,
y,
radius,
getRadians(props.startAngle),
getRadians(degrees),
props.counterClockwise
);
context.lineWidth = props.lineWidth;
context.strokeStyle = props.color;
context.stroke();
// Start erasing when we hit 360 degrees
if (degrees >= 360) {
context.closePath();
props = eraseProps;
context.globalCompositeOperation = props.globalCompositeOperation;
}
// Start drawing again when we get back to 0 degrees
if (degrees <= 0) {
canvas.width = canvas.width; // Clear the canvas for better performance (I think)
context.closePath();
props = drawProps;
context.globalCompositeOperation = props.globalCompositeOperation;
}
/************************************************/
}
// Helper method to convert degrees to radians
function getRadians(degrees) {
return degrees * (Math.PI / 180);
}