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I have a canvas in my webpage; I create a new Image data in this canvas then I modify some pixel through myImgData.data[] array. Now I would like to scale this image and make it bigger. I tried by scaling the context but the image remains small. Is it possible to do this?
Thanks
You could draw the imageData to a new canvas, scale the original canvas and then draw the new canvas to the original canvas.
Something like this should work:
var imageData = context.getImageData(0, 0, 100, 100);
var newCanvas = $("<canvas>")
.attr("width", imageData.width)
.attr("height", imageData.height)[0];
newCanvas.getContext("2d").putImageData(imageData, 0, 0);
context.scale(1.5, 1.5);
context.drawImage(newCanvas, 0, 0);
Here's a functioning demo http://jsfiddle.net/Hm2xq/2/.
I needed to do it without the interpolation that putImageData() causes, so I did it by scaling the image data into a new, resized ImageData object. I can't think of any other time I've thought that using 5 nested for loops was a good idea:
function scaleImageData(imageData, scale) {
var scaled = c.createImageData(imageData.width * scale, imageData.height * scale);
for(var row = 0; row < imageData.height; row++) {
for(var col = 0; col < imageData.width; col++) {
var sourcePixel = [
imageData.data[(row * imageData.width + col) * 4 + 0],
imageData.data[(row * imageData.width + col) * 4 + 1],
imageData.data[(row * imageData.width + col) * 4 + 2],
imageData.data[(row * imageData.width + col) * 4 + 3]
];
for(var y = 0; y < scale; y++) {
var destRow = row * scale + y;
for(var x = 0; x < scale; x++) {
var destCol = col * scale + x;
for(var i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
scaled.data[(destRow * scaled.width + destCol) * 4 + i] =
sourcePixel[i];
}
}
}
}
}
return scaled;
}
I hope that at least one other programmer can copy and paste this into their editor while muttering, "There but for the grace of god go I."
I know it's an old subject, but since people like may find it useful, I add my optimization to the code of rodarmor :
function scaleImageData(imageData, scale) {
var scaled = ctx.createImageData(imageData.width * scale, imageData.height * scale);
var subLine = ctx.createImageData(scale, 1).data
for (var row = 0; row < imageData.height; row++) {
for (var col = 0; col < imageData.width; col++) {
var sourcePixel = imageData.data.subarray(
(row * imageData.width + col) * 4,
(row * imageData.width + col) * 4 + 4
);
for (var x = 0; x < scale; x++) subLine.set(sourcePixel, x*4)
for (var y = 0; y < scale; y++) {
var destRow = row * scale + y;
var destCol = col * scale;
scaled.data.set(subLine, (destRow * scaled.width + destCol) * 4)
}
}
}
return scaled;
}
This code uses less loops and runs roughly 30 times faster. For instance, on a 100x zoom of a 100*100 area this codes takes 250 ms while the other takes more than 8 seconds.
You can scale the canvas using the drawImage method.
context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.drawImage( canvas, 0, 0, 2*canvas.width, 2*canvas.height );
This would scale the image to double the size and render the north-west part of it to the canvas. Scaling is achieved with the third and fourth parameters to the drawImage method, which specify the resulting width and height of the image.
See docs at MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/CanvasRenderingContext2D#drawImage%28%29
#Castrohenge's answer works, but as Muhammad Umer points out, it messes up the mouse coordinates on the original canvas after that. If you want to maintain the ability to perform additional scales (for cropping, etc.) then you need to utilize a second canvas (for scaling) and then fetch the image data from the second canvas and put that into the original canvas. Like so:
function scaleImageData(imageData, scale){
var newCanvas = $("<canvas>")
.attr("width", imageData.width)
.attr("height", imageData.height)[0];
newCanvas.getContext("2d").putImageData(imageData, 0, 0);
// Second canvas, for scaling
var scaleCanvas = $("<canvas>")
.attr("width", canvas.width)
.attr("height", canvas.height)[0];
var scaleCtx = scaleCanvas.getContext("2d");
scaleCtx.scale(scale, scale);
scaleCtx.drawImage(newCanvas, 0, 0);
var scaledImageData = scaleCtx.getImageData(0, 0, scaleCanvas.width, scaleCanvas.height);
return scaledImageData;
}
Nowadays, the best way to render a scaled ImageData object is generally to create an ImageBitmap from it.
All modern browsers finally do support it.
This will use a faster path to render the ImageData's content to a bitmap readily available to be painted by drawImage(), theoretically a lot faster than the second best option of putting the ImageData on a secondary <canvas> and redraw that <canvas>.
The main catch-up is that createImageBitmap() is asynchronous*, and thus it may not fit in an animation frame very well.
(async () => {
// here I'll just make some noise in my ImageData
const imagedata = new ImageData(100, 100);
const arr = new Uint32Array(imagedata.data.buffer);
for( let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++ ) {
arr[i] = Math.random() * 0xFFFFFF + 0xFF000000;
}
// now to render it bigger
const bitmap = await createImageBitmap(imagedata);
const canvas = document.querySelector("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.imageSmoothingEnabled = false; // keep pixel perfect
ctx.drawImage(bitmap, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
})();
<canvas width="1000" height="1000"></canvas>
* Technically, only Firefox does implement createImageBitmap(<ImageData>) asynchronously, Chrome and Safari will resolve the returned Promise synchronously, and there, it's safe to use it in an animation frame: https://jsfiddle.net/vraz3xcg/
I'm trying to create a thumbnail image on the client side using javascript and a canvas element, but when I shrink the image down, it looks terrible. It looks as if it was downsized in photoshop with the resampling set to 'Nearest Neighbor' instead of Bicubic. I know its possible to get this to look right, because this site can do it just fine using a canvas as well. I've tried using the same code they do as shown in the "[Source]" link, but it still looks terrible. Is there something I'm missing, some setting that needs to be set or something?
EDIT:
I'm trying to resize a jpg. I have tried resizing the same jpg on the linked site and in photoshop, and it looks fine when downsized.
Here is the relevant code:
reader.onloadend = function(e)
{
var img = new Image();
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var canvasCopy = document.createElement("canvas");
var copyContext = canvasCopy.getContext("2d");
img.onload = function()
{
var ratio = 1;
if(img.width > maxWidth)
ratio = maxWidth / img.width;
else if(img.height > maxHeight)
ratio = maxHeight / img.height;
canvasCopy.width = img.width;
canvasCopy.height = img.height;
copyContext.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
canvas.width = img.width * ratio;
canvas.height = img.height * ratio;
ctx.drawImage(canvasCopy, 0, 0, canvasCopy.width, canvasCopy.height, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
};
img.src = reader.result;
}
EDIT2:
Seems I was mistaken, the linked website wasn't doing any better of a job of downsizing the image. I tried the other methods suggested and none of them look any better. This is what the different methods resulted in:
Photoshop:
Canvas:
Image with image-rendering: optimizeQuality set and scaled with width/height:
Image with image-rendering: optimizeQuality set and scaled with -moz-transform:
Canvas resize on pixastic:
I guess this means firefox isn't using bicubic sampling like its supposed to. I'll just have to wait until they actually add it.
EDIT3:
Original Image
So what do you do if all the browsers (actually, Chrome 5 gave me quite good one) won't give you good enough resampling quality? You implement them yourself then! Oh come on, we're entering the new age of Web 3.0, HTML5 compliant browsers, super optimized JIT javascript compilers, multi-core(†) machines, with tons of memory, what are you afraid of? Hey, there's the word java in javascript, so that should guarantee the performance, right? Behold, the thumbnail generating code:
// returns a function that calculates lanczos weight
function lanczosCreate(lobes) {
return function(x) {
if (x > lobes)
return 0;
x *= Math.PI;
if (Math.abs(x) < 1e-16)
return 1;
var xx = x / lobes;
return Math.sin(x) * Math.sin(xx) / x / xx;
};
}
// elem: canvas element, img: image element, sx: scaled width, lobes: kernel radius
function thumbnailer(elem, img, sx, lobes) {
this.canvas = elem;
elem.width = img.width;
elem.height = img.height;
elem.style.display = "none";
this.ctx = elem.getContext("2d");
this.ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
this.img = img;
this.src = this.ctx.getImageData(0, 0, img.width, img.height);
this.dest = {
width : sx,
height : Math.round(img.height * sx / img.width),
};
this.dest.data = new Array(this.dest.width * this.dest.height * 3);
this.lanczos = lanczosCreate(lobes);
this.ratio = img.width / sx;
this.rcp_ratio = 2 / this.ratio;
this.range2 = Math.ceil(this.ratio * lobes / 2);
this.cacheLanc = {};
this.center = {};
this.icenter = {};
setTimeout(this.process1, 0, this, 0);
}
thumbnailer.prototype.process1 = function(self, u) {
self.center.x = (u + 0.5) * self.ratio;
self.icenter.x = Math.floor(self.center.x);
for (var v = 0; v < self.dest.height; v++) {
self.center.y = (v + 0.5) * self.ratio;
self.icenter.y = Math.floor(self.center.y);
var a, r, g, b;
a = r = g = b = 0;
for (var i = self.icenter.x - self.range2; i <= self.icenter.x + self.range2; i++) {
if (i < 0 || i >= self.src.width)
continue;
var f_x = Math.floor(1000 * Math.abs(i - self.center.x));
if (!self.cacheLanc[f_x])
self.cacheLanc[f_x] = {};
for (var j = self.icenter.y - self.range2; j <= self.icenter.y + self.range2; j++) {
if (j < 0 || j >= self.src.height)
continue;
var f_y = Math.floor(1000 * Math.abs(j - self.center.y));
if (self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y] == undefined)
self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y] = self.lanczos(Math.sqrt(Math.pow(f_x * self.rcp_ratio, 2)
+ Math.pow(f_y * self.rcp_ratio, 2)) / 1000);
weight = self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y];
if (weight > 0) {
var idx = (j * self.src.width + i) * 4;
a += weight;
r += weight * self.src.data[idx];
g += weight * self.src.data[idx + 1];
b += weight * self.src.data[idx + 2];
}
}
}
var idx = (v * self.dest.width + u) * 3;
self.dest.data[idx] = r / a;
self.dest.data[idx + 1] = g / a;
self.dest.data[idx + 2] = b / a;
}
if (++u < self.dest.width)
setTimeout(self.process1, 0, self, u);
else
setTimeout(self.process2, 0, self);
};
thumbnailer.prototype.process2 = function(self) {
self.canvas.width = self.dest.width;
self.canvas.height = self.dest.height;
self.ctx.drawImage(self.img, 0, 0, self.dest.width, self.dest.height);
self.src = self.ctx.getImageData(0, 0, self.dest.width, self.dest.height);
var idx, idx2;
for (var i = 0; i < self.dest.width; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j < self.dest.height; j++) {
idx = (j * self.dest.width + i) * 3;
idx2 = (j * self.dest.width + i) * 4;
self.src.data[idx2] = self.dest.data[idx];
self.src.data[idx2 + 1] = self.dest.data[idx + 1];
self.src.data[idx2 + 2] = self.dest.data[idx + 2];
}
}
self.ctx.putImageData(self.src, 0, 0);
self.canvas.style.display = "block";
};
...with which you can produce results like these!
so anyway, here is a 'fixed' version of your example:
img.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
new thumbnailer(canvas, img, 188, 3); //this produces lanczos3
// but feel free to raise it up to 8. Your client will appreciate
// that the program makes full use of his machine.
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
};
Now it's time to pit your best browsers out there and see which one will least likely increase your client's blood pressure!
Umm, where's my sarcasm tag?
(since many parts of the code is based on Anrieff Gallery Generator is it also covered under GPL2? I don't know)
† actually due to limitation of javascript, multi-core is not supported.
Fast image resize/resample algorithm using Hermite filter with JavaScript. Support transparency, gives good quality. Preview:
Update: version 2.0 added on GitHub (faster, web workers + transferable objects). Finally i got it working!
Git: https://github.com/viliusle/Hermite-resize
Demo: http://viliusle.github.io/miniPaint/
/**
* Hermite resize - fast image resize/resample using Hermite filter. 1 cpu version!
*
* #param {HtmlElement} canvas
* #param {int} width
* #param {int} height
* #param {boolean} resize_canvas if true, canvas will be resized. Optional.
*/
function resample_single(canvas, width, height, resize_canvas) {
var width_source = canvas.width;
var height_source = canvas.height;
width = Math.round(width);
height = Math.round(height);
var ratio_w = width_source / width;
var ratio_h = height_source / height;
var ratio_w_half = Math.ceil(ratio_w / 2);
var ratio_h_half = Math.ceil(ratio_h / 2);
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var img = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, width_source, height_source);
var img2 = ctx.createImageData(width, height);
var data = img.data;
var data2 = img2.data;
for (var j = 0; j < height; j++) {
for (var i = 0; i < width; i++) {
var x2 = (i + j * width) * 4;
var weight = 0;
var weights = 0;
var weights_alpha = 0;
var gx_r = 0;
var gx_g = 0;
var gx_b = 0;
var gx_a = 0;
var center_y = (j + 0.5) * ratio_h;
var yy_start = Math.floor(j * ratio_h);
var yy_stop = Math.ceil((j + 1) * ratio_h);
for (var yy = yy_start; yy < yy_stop; yy++) {
var dy = Math.abs(center_y - (yy + 0.5)) / ratio_h_half;
var center_x = (i + 0.5) * ratio_w;
var w0 = dy * dy; //pre-calc part of w
var xx_start = Math.floor(i * ratio_w);
var xx_stop = Math.ceil((i + 1) * ratio_w);
for (var xx = xx_start; xx < xx_stop; xx++) {
var dx = Math.abs(center_x - (xx + 0.5)) / ratio_w_half;
var w = Math.sqrt(w0 + dx * dx);
if (w >= 1) {
//pixel too far
continue;
}
//hermite filter
weight = 2 * w * w * w - 3 * w * w + 1;
var pos_x = 4 * (xx + yy * width_source);
//alpha
gx_a += weight * data[pos_x + 3];
weights_alpha += weight;
//colors
if (data[pos_x + 3] < 255)
weight = weight * data[pos_x + 3] / 250;
gx_r += weight * data[pos_x];
gx_g += weight * data[pos_x + 1];
gx_b += weight * data[pos_x + 2];
weights += weight;
}
}
data2[x2] = gx_r / weights;
data2[x2 + 1] = gx_g / weights;
data2[x2 + 2] = gx_b / weights;
data2[x2 + 3] = gx_a / weights_alpha;
}
}
//clear and resize canvas
if (resize_canvas === true) {
canvas.width = width;
canvas.height = height;
} else {
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, width_source, height_source);
}
//draw
ctx.putImageData(img2, 0, 0);
}
Try pica - that's a highly optimized resizer with selectable algorythms. See demo.
For example, original image from first post is resized in 120ms with Lanczos filter and 3px window or 60ms with Box filter and 0.5px window. For huge 17mb image 5000x3000px resize takes ~1s on desktop and 3s on mobile.
All resize principles were described very well in this thread, and pica does not add rocket science. But it's optimized very well for modern JIT-s, and is ready to use out of box (via npm or bower). Also, it use webworkers when available to avoid interface freezes.
I also plan to add unsharp mask support soon, because it's very useful after downscale.
I know this is an old thread but it might be useful for some people such as myself that months after are hitting this issue for the first time.
Here is some code that resizes the image every time you reload the image. I am aware this is not optimal at all, but I provide it as a proof of concept.
Also, sorry for using jQuery for simple selectors but I just feel too comfortable with the syntax.
$(document).on('ready', createImage);
$(window).on('resize', createImage);
var createImage = function(){
var canvas = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
canvas.width = window.innerWidth || $(window).width();
canvas.height = window.innerHeight || $(window).height();
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
img = new Image();
img.addEventListener('load', function () {
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0, w, h);
});
img.src = 'http://www.ruinvalor.com/Telanor/images/original.jpg';
};
html, body{
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background: #000;
}
canvas{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
z-index: 0;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Canvas Resize</title>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="myCanvas"></canvas>
</body>
</html>
My createImage function is called once when the document is loaded and after that it is called every time the window receives a resize event.
I tested it in Chrome 6 and Firefox 3.6, both on the Mac. This "technique" eats processor as it if was ice cream in the summer, but it does the trick.
I've put up some algorithms to do image interpolation on html canvas pixel arrays that might be useful here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170104190425/http://jsperf.com:80/pixel-interpolation/2
These can be copy/pasted and can be used inside of web workers to resize images (or any other operation that requires interpolation - I'm using them to defish images at the moment).
I haven't added the lanczos stuff above, so feel free to add that as a comparison if you'd like.
This is a javascript function adapted from #Telanor's code. When passing a image base64 as first argument to the function, it returns the base64 of the resized image. maxWidth and maxHeight are optional.
function thumbnail(base64, maxWidth, maxHeight) {
// Max size for thumbnail
if(typeof(maxWidth) === 'undefined') var maxWidth = 500;
if(typeof(maxHeight) === 'undefined') var maxHeight = 500;
// Create and initialize two canvas
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var canvasCopy = document.createElement("canvas");
var copyContext = canvasCopy.getContext("2d");
// Create original image
var img = new Image();
img.src = base64;
// Determine new ratio based on max size
var ratio = 1;
if(img.width > maxWidth)
ratio = maxWidth / img.width;
else if(img.height > maxHeight)
ratio = maxHeight / img.height;
// Draw original image in second canvas
canvasCopy.width = img.width;
canvasCopy.height = img.height;
copyContext.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
// Copy and resize second canvas to first canvas
canvas.width = img.width * ratio;
canvas.height = img.height * ratio;
ctx.drawImage(canvasCopy, 0, 0, canvasCopy.width, canvasCopy.height, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
return canvas.toDataURL();
}
I'd highly suggest you check out this link and make sure it is set to true.
Controlling image scaling behavior
Introduced in Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 3.6
/ Thunderbird 3.1 / Fennec 1.0)
Gecko 1.9.2 introduced the
mozImageSmoothingEnabled property to
the canvas element; if this Boolean
value is false, images won't be
smoothed when scaled. This property is
true by default. view plainprint?
cx.mozImageSmoothingEnabled = false;
If you're simply trying to resize an image, I'd recommend setting width and height of the image with CSS. Here's a quick example:
.small-image {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
Note that the height and width can also be set using JavaScript. Here's quick code sample:
var img = document.getElement("my-image");
img.style.width = 100 + "px"; // Make sure you add the "px" to the end,
img.style.height = 100 + "px"; // otherwise you'll confuse IE
Also, to ensure that the resized image looks good, add the following css rules to image selector:
-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic: introduce in IE7
image-rendering: optimizeQuality: introduced in FireFox 3.6
As far as I can tell, all browsers except IE using an bicubic algorithm to resize images by default, so your resized images should look good in Firefox and Chrome.
If setting the css width and height doesn't work, you may want to play with a css transform:
-moz-transform: scale(sx[, sy])
-webkit-transform:scale(sx[, sy])
If for whatever reason you need to use a canvas, please note that there are two ways an image can be resize: by resizing the canvas with css or by drawing the image at a smaller size.
See this question for more details.
i got this image by right clicking the canvas element in firefox and saving as.
var img = new Image();
img.onload = function () {
console.debug(this.width,this.height);
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas'), ctx;
canvas.width = 188;
canvas.height = 150;
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(img,0,0,188,150);
};
img.src = 'original.jpg';
so anyway, here is a 'fixed' version of your example:
var img = new Image();
// added cause it wasnt defined
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var canvasCopy = document.createElement("canvas");
// adding it to the body
document.body.appendChild(canvasCopy);
var copyContext = canvasCopy.getContext("2d");
img.onload = function()
{
var ratio = 1;
// defining cause it wasnt
var maxWidth = 188,
maxHeight = 150;
if(img.width > maxWidth)
ratio = maxWidth / img.width;
else if(img.height > maxHeight)
ratio = maxHeight / img.height;
canvasCopy.width = img.width;
canvasCopy.height = img.height;
copyContext.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
canvas.width = img.width * ratio;
canvas.height = img.height * ratio;
// the line to change
// ctx.drawImage(canvasCopy, 0, 0, canvasCopy.width, canvasCopy.height, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
// the method signature you are using is for slicing
ctx.drawImage(canvasCopy, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
};
// changed for example
img.src = 'original.jpg';
For resizing to image with width less that original, i use:
function resize2(i) {
var cc = document.createElement("canvas");
cc.width = i.width / 2;
cc.height = i.height / 2;
var ctx = cc.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(i, 0, 0, cc.width, cc.height);
return cc;
}
var cc = img;
while (cc.width > 64 * 2) {
cc = resize2(cc);
}
// .. than drawImage(cc, .... )
and it works =).
I have a feeling the module I wrote will produce similar results to photoshop, as it preserves color data by averaging them, not applying an algorithm. It's kind of slow, but to me it is the best, because it preserves all the color data.
https://github.com/danschumann/limby-resize/blob/master/lib/canvas_resize.js
It doesn't take the nearest neighbor and drop other pixels, or sample a group and take a random average. It takes the exact proportion each source pixel should output into the destination pixel. The average pixel color in the source will be the average pixel color in the destination, which these other formulas, I think they will not be.
an example of how to use is at the bottom of
https://github.com/danschumann/limby-resize
UPDATE OCT 2018: These days my example is more academic than anything else. Webgl is pretty much 100%, so you'd be better off resizing with that to produce similar results, but faster. PICA.js does this, I believe. –
The problem with some of this solutions is that they access directly the pixel data and loop through it to perform the downsampling. Depending on the size of the image this can be very resource intensive, and it would be better to use the browser's internal algorithms.
The drawImage() function is using a linear-interpolation, nearest-neighbor resampling method. That works well when you are not resizing down more than half the original size.
If you loop to only resize max one half at a time, the results would be quite good, and much faster than accessing pixel data.
This function downsample to half at a time until reaching the desired size:
function resize_image( src, dst, type, quality ) {
var tmp = new Image(),
canvas, context, cW, cH;
type = type || 'image/jpeg';
quality = quality || 0.92;
cW = src.naturalWidth;
cH = src.naturalHeight;
tmp.src = src.src;
tmp.onload = function() {
canvas = document.createElement( 'canvas' );
cW /= 2;
cH /= 2;
if ( cW < src.width ) cW = src.width;
if ( cH < src.height ) cH = src.height;
canvas.width = cW;
canvas.height = cH;
context = canvas.getContext( '2d' );
context.drawImage( tmp, 0, 0, cW, cH );
dst.src = canvas.toDataURL( type, quality );
if ( cW <= src.width || cH <= src.height )
return;
tmp.src = dst.src;
}
}
// The images sent as parameters can be in the DOM or be image objects
resize_image( $( '#original' )[0], $( '#smaller' )[0] );
Credits to this post
So something interesting that I found a while ago while working with canvas that might be helpful:
To resize the canvas control on its own, you need to use the height="" and width="" attributes (or canvas.width/canvas.height elements). If you use CSS to resize the canvas, it will actually stretch (i.e.: resize) the content of the canvas to fit the full canvas (rather than simply increasing or decreasing the area of the canvas.
It'd be worth a shot to try drawing the image into a canvas control with the height and width attributes set to the size of the image and then using CSS to resize the canvas to the size you're looking for. Perhaps this would use a different resizing algorithm.
It should also be noted that canvas has different effects in different browsers (and even different versions of different browsers). The algorithms and techniques used in the browsers is likely to change over time (especially with Firefox 4 and Chrome 6 coming out so soon, which will place heavy emphasis on canvas rendering performance).
In addition, you may want to give SVG a shot, too, as it likely uses a different algorithm as well.
Best of luck!
Fast and simple Javascript image resizer:
https://github.com/calvintwr/blitz-hermite-resize
const blitz = Blitz.create()
/* Promise */
blitz({
source: DOM Image/DOM Canvas/jQuery/DataURL/File,
width: 400,
height: 600
}).then(output => {
// handle output
})catch(error => {
// handle error
})
/* Await */
let resized = await blizt({...})
/* Old school callback */
const blitz = Blitz.create('callback')
blitz({...}, function(output) {
// run your callback.
})
History
This is really after many rounds of research, reading and trying.
The resizer algorithm uses #ViliusL's Hermite script (Hermite resizer is really the fastest and gives reasonably good output). Extended with features you need.
Forks 1 worker to do the resizing so that it doesn't freeze your browser when resizing, unlike all other JS resizers out there.
I converted #syockit's answer as well as the step-down approach into a reusable Angular service for anyone who's interested: https://gist.github.com/fisch0920/37bac5e741eaec60e983
I included both solutions because they both have their own pros / cons. The lanczos convolution approach is higher quality at the cost of being slower, whereas the step-wise downscaling approach produces reasonably antialiased results and is significantly faster.
Example usage:
angular.module('demo').controller('ExampleCtrl', function (imageService) {
// EXAMPLE USAGE
// NOTE: it's bad practice to access the DOM inside a controller,
// but this is just to show the example usage.
// resize by lanczos-sinc filter
imageService.resize($('#myimg')[0], 256, 256)
.then(function (resizedImage) {
// do something with resized image
})
// resize by stepping down image size in increments of 2x
imageService.resizeStep($('#myimg')[0], 256, 256)
.then(function (resizedImage) {
// do something with resized image
})
})
Thanks #syockit for an awesome answer. however, I had to reformat a little as follows to make it work. Perhaps due to DOM scanning issues:
$(document).ready(function () {
$('img').on("load", clickA);
function clickA() {
var img = this;
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
new thumbnailer(canvas, img, 50, 3);
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
}
function thumbnailer(elem, img, sx, lobes) {
this.canvas = elem;
elem.width = img.width;
elem.height = img.height;
elem.style.display = "none";
this.ctx = elem.getContext("2d");
this.ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
this.img = img;
this.src = this.ctx.getImageData(0, 0, img.width, img.height);
this.dest = {
width: sx,
height: Math.round(img.height * sx / img.width)
};
this.dest.data = new Array(this.dest.width * this.dest.height * 3);
this.lanczos = lanczosCreate(lobes);
this.ratio = img.width / sx;
this.rcp_ratio = 2 / this.ratio;
this.range2 = Math.ceil(this.ratio * lobes / 2);
this.cacheLanc = {};
this.center = {};
this.icenter = {};
setTimeout(process1, 0, this, 0);
}
//returns a function that calculates lanczos weight
function lanczosCreate(lobes) {
return function (x) {
if (x > lobes)
return 0;
x *= Math.PI;
if (Math.abs(x) < 1e-16)
return 1
var xx = x / lobes;
return Math.sin(x) * Math.sin(xx) / x / xx;
}
}
process1 = function (self, u) {
self.center.x = (u + 0.5) * self.ratio;
self.icenter.x = Math.floor(self.center.x);
for (var v = 0; v < self.dest.height; v++) {
self.center.y = (v + 0.5) * self.ratio;
self.icenter.y = Math.floor(self.center.y);
var a, r, g, b;
a = r = g = b = 0;
for (var i = self.icenter.x - self.range2; i <= self.icenter.x + self.range2; i++) {
if (i < 0 || i >= self.src.width)
continue;
var f_x = Math.floor(1000 * Math.abs(i - self.center.x));
if (!self.cacheLanc[f_x])
self.cacheLanc[f_x] = {};
for (var j = self.icenter.y - self.range2; j <= self.icenter.y + self.range2; j++) {
if (j < 0 || j >= self.src.height)
continue;
var f_y = Math.floor(1000 * Math.abs(j - self.center.y));
if (self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y] == undefined)
self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y] = self.lanczos(Math.sqrt(Math.pow(f_x * self.rcp_ratio, 2) + Math.pow(f_y * self.rcp_ratio, 2)) / 1000);
weight = self.cacheLanc[f_x][f_y];
if (weight > 0) {
var idx = (j * self.src.width + i) * 4;
a += weight;
r += weight * self.src.data[idx];
g += weight * self.src.data[idx + 1];
b += weight * self.src.data[idx + 2];
}
}
}
var idx = (v * self.dest.width + u) * 3;
self.dest.data[idx] = r / a;
self.dest.data[idx + 1] = g / a;
self.dest.data[idx + 2] = b / a;
}
if (++u < self.dest.width)
setTimeout(process1, 0, self, u);
else
setTimeout(process2, 0, self);
};
process2 = function (self) {
self.canvas.width = self.dest.width;
self.canvas.height = self.dest.height;
self.ctx.drawImage(self.img, 0, 0);
self.src = self.ctx.getImageData(0, 0, self.dest.width, self.dest.height);
var idx, idx2;
for (var i = 0; i < self.dest.width; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j < self.dest.height; j++) {
idx = (j * self.dest.width + i) * 3;
idx2 = (j * self.dest.width + i) * 4;
self.src.data[idx2] = self.dest.data[idx];
self.src.data[idx2 + 1] = self.dest.data[idx + 1];
self.src.data[idx2 + 2] = self.dest.data[idx + 2];
}
}
self.ctx.putImageData(self.src, 0, 0);
self.canvas.style.display = "block";
}
});
I wanted some well defined functions out of answers here so ended up with these which am hoping would be useful for others also,
function getImageFromLink(link) {
return new Promise(function (resolve) {
var image = new Image();
image.onload = function () { resolve(image); };
image.src = link;
});
}
function resizeImageToBlob(image, width, height, mime) {
return new Promise(function (resolve) {
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = width;
canvas.height = height;
canvas.getContext('2d').drawImage(image, 0, 0, width, height);
return canvas.toBlob(resolve, mime);
});
}
getImageFromLink(location.href).then(function (image) {
// calculate these based on the original size
var width = image.width / 4;
var height = image.height / 4;
return resizeImageToBlob(image, width, height, 'image/jpeg');
}).then(function (blob) {
// Do something with the result Blob object
document.querySelector('img').src = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
});
Just for the sake of testing this run it on a image opened in a tab.
I just ran a page of side by sides comparisons and unless something has changed recently, I could see no better downsizing (scaling) using canvas vs. simple css. I tested in FF6 Mac OSX 10.7. Still slightly soft vs. the original.
I did however stumble upon something that did make a huge difference and that was using image filters in browsers that support canvas. You can actually manipulate images much like you can in Photoshop with blur, sharpen, saturation, ripple, grayscale, etc.
I then found an awesome jQuery plug-in which makes application of these filters a snap:
http://codecanyon.net/item/jsmanipulate-jquery-image-manipulation-plugin/428234
I simply apply the sharpen filter right after resizing the image which should give you the desired effect. I didn't even have to use a canvas element.
Looking for another great simple solution?
var img=document.createElement('img');
img.src=canvas.toDataURL();
$(img).css("background", backgroundColor);
$(img).width(settings.width);
$(img).height(settings.height);
This solution will use the resize algorith of browser! :)
for this project http://biduleohm.free.fr/ledohm/ (sorry, the user interface is in french but the code is in english) I need an angular gradient but it doesn't exists in native so I've implemented it using a linear gradient on a line and I draw the lines more and more longer to form a triangle. The result is graphically OK but the speed isn't really good (1850 ms for 125 triangles). It's in the tab [Répartition], it redraws if there is a keyup event on one of the inputs, don't be afraid of the apparent slowness, I've limited to maximum one redraw every 2000 ms.
Before I used a simple linear gradient on the whole triangle (but this doesn't match the reality) and the speed was OK, it draws thousands of triangles in less than a second. This function was used :
drawFrontLightForColor : function(x, y, w, h, color) {
var x2 = x - w;
var x3 = x + w;
var gradient = Distri.frontCanvas.createLinearGradient(x2, y, x3, y);
gradient.addColorStop(0, 'rgba(' + color + ', ' + Distri.lightEdgeAlpha + ')');
gradient.addColorStop(0.5, 'rgba(' + color + ', ' + (color == Distri.lightColors.cw ? Distri.lightCenterAlphaCw : Distri.lightCenterAlphaOther) + ')');
gradient.addColorStop(1, 'rgba(' + color + ', ' + Distri.lightEdgeAlpha + ')');
Distri.frontCanvas.fillStyle = gradient;
Distri.frontCanvas.beginPath();
Distri.frontCanvas.moveTo(x, y);
Distri.frontCanvas.lineTo(x2, (y + h));
Distri.frontCanvas.lineTo(x3, (y + h));
Distri.frontCanvas.lineTo(x, y);
Distri.frontCanvas.fill();
Distri.frontCanvas.closePath();
},
Then I switched to this function :
drawFrontLightForColor : function(x, y, w, h, centerColor, edgeColor) {
var ratio = w / h;
var tmpY;
var tmpW;
var x2;
var x3;
var gradient;
Distri.frontCanvas.lineWidth = 1;
for (var tmpH = 0; tmpH < h; tmpH++) {
tmpY = y + tmpH;
tmpW = Math.round(tmpH * ratio);
x2 = x - tmpW;
x3 = x + tmpW;
gradient = Distri.frontCanvas.createLinearGradient(x2, tmpY, x3, tmpY);
gradient.addColorStop(0, edgeColor);
gradient.addColorStop(0.5, centerColor);
gradient.addColorStop(1, edgeColor);
Distri.frontCanvas.beginPath();
Distri.frontCanvas.moveTo(x2, tmpY);
Distri.frontCanvas.lineTo(x, tmpY);
Distri.frontCanvas.lineTo(x3, tmpY);
Distri.frontCanvas.strokeStyle = gradient;
Distri.frontCanvas.stroke();
Distri.frontCanvas.closePath();
}
},
You can find the whole source here
I can't put the beginPath, stroke, closePath out of the loop because of the gradient which is changing every iteration (I've tried but it used the last gradient for every line (which, ironically, is identical to the first function...) which is understandable but not what I want).
I accept any advice (including redo the whole function and modify his caller to outsource some code) to improve the speed let's say 5x (ideally more).
I think you took the wrong way from the start : when doing so much changes of color, you have better operate at the pixel level.
So yes that could be with a webgl pixel shader, but you'll have to fight just to get the boilerplate running ok on all platform (or get a lib to do that for you).
And anyway there's a solution perfect for your need, and fast enough (a few ms) : use raw pixel data, update them one by one with the relevant function, then draw the result.
The steps to do that are :
- create a buffer same size as the canvas.
- iterate through it's pixel, keeping track of the x,y of the point.
- normalize the coordinates so they match your 'space'.
- compute the value for the normalized (x,y) out of all the data that you have.
- write a color (in my example i choose greyscale) out of that value.
- draw the whole buffer to canvas.
I did a jsfiddle, and here's the result with 4 data points :
fiddle is here :
http://jsfiddle.net/gamealchemist/KsM9c/3/
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var width = canvas.width,
height = canvas.height;
// builds an image for the target canvas
function buildImage(targetCanvas, valueForXY, someData) {
var width = targetCanvas.width;
var height = targetCanvas.height;
var tempImg = ctx.createImageData(width, height);
var buffer = tempImg.data;
var offset = 0;
var xy = [0, 0];
function normalizeXY(xy) {
xy[0] = xy[0] / width ;
xy[1] = xy[1] / height;
}
for (var y = 0; y < height; y++)
for (var x = 0; x < width; x++, offset += 4) {
xy[0] = x; xy[1]=y;
normalizeXY(xy);
var val = Math.floor(valueForXY(xy, someData) * 255);
buffer[offset] = val;
buffer[offset + 1] = val;
buffer[offset + 2] = val;
buffer[offset + 3] = 255;
}
ctx.putImageData(tempImg, 0, 0);
}
// return normalized (0->1) value for x,y and
// provided data.
// xy is a 2 elements array
function someValueForXY(xy, someData) {
var res = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < someData.length; i++) {
var thisData = someData[i];
var dist = Math.pow(sq(thisData[0] - xy[0]) + sq(thisData[1] - xy[1]), -0.55);
localRes = 0.04 * dist;
res += localRes;
}
if (res > 1) res = 1;
return res;
}
var someData = [
[0.6, 0.2],
[0.35, 0.8],
[0.2, 0.5],
[0.6, 0.75]
];
buildImage(canvas, someValueForXY, someData);
// ------------------------
function sq(x) {
return x * x
}
In fact the GameAlchemist's solution isn't fast or I do something really wrong. I've implemented this algo only for the top view because the front view is much more complex.
For 120 lights the top view take 100-105 ms with the old code and it take 1650-1700 ms with this code (and moreover it still lacks a few things in the new code like the color for example):
drawTopLightForColor_ : function(canvasW, canvasD, rampX, rampY, rampZ, ledsArrays, color) {
function sq(x) {
return x * x;
}
var tmpImg = Distri.topCanvasCtx.createImageData(canvasW, canvasD);
var rawData = tmpImg.data;
var ledsArray = ledsArrays[color];
var len = ledsArray.length;
var i = 0;
for (var y = 0; y < canvasD; y++) {
for (var x = 0; x < canvasW; x++, i += 4) {
var intensity = 0;
for (var j = 0; j < len; j++) {
intensity += 2 * Math.pow(
sq((rampX + ledsArray[j].x) - x) +
sq((rampZ + ledsArray[j].y) - y),
-0.5
);
}
if (intensity > 1) {
intensity = 1;
}
intensity = Math.round(intensity * 255);
rawData[i] = intensity;
rawData[i + 1] = intensity;
rawData[i + 2] = intensity;
rawData[i + 3] = 255;
}
}
Distri.topCanvasCtx.putImageData(tmpImg, 0, 0);
},
Am I doing something wrong?
I have a function named generateNoise() which creates a canvas element and paints random RGBA values to it; which, gives the appearance of noise.
My Question
What would be the best way to infinitely animate the noise to give the appearance of movement. So that it may have more life?
JSFiddle
function generateNoise(opacity) {
if(!!!document.createElement('canvas').getContext) {
return false;
}
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas'),
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'),
x,y,
r,g,b,
opacity = opacity || .2;
canvas.width = 55;
canvas.height = 55;
for (x = 0; x < canvas.width; x++){
for (y = 0; y < canvas.height; y++){
r = Math.floor(Math.random() * 255);
g = Math.floor(Math.random() * 255);
b = Math.floor(Math.random() * 255);
ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(' + r + ',' + b + ',' + g + ',' + opacity + ')';
ctx.fillRect(x,y,1,1);
}
}
document.body.style.backgroundImage = "url(" + canvas.toDataURL("image/png") + ")";
}
generateNoise(.8);
Update 1/2017: I rewrote the entire answer as it started to become rather messy, and to address some of the issues pointed out in the comments. The original answer can be found here. The new answer has in essence the same code but improved, and with a couple of new techniques, one utilizes a new feature available since this answer was first posted.
For a "true" random look we would need to use pixel-level rendering. We can optimize this using 32-bit unsigned buffers instead of 8-bit, and we can also turn off the alpha-channel in more recent browsers which speeds up the entire process (for older browsers we can simply set a black opaque background for the canvas element).
We create a reusable ImageData object once outside the main loop so the main cost is only putImageData() and not both inside the loop.
var ctx = c.getContext("2d", {alpha: false}); // context without alpha channel.
var idata = ctx.createImageData(c.width, c.height); // create image data
var buffer32 = new Uint32Array(idata.data.buffer); // get 32-bit view
(function loop() {
noise(ctx);
requestAnimationFrame(loop)
})()
function noise(ctx) {
var len = buffer32.length - 1;
while(len--) buffer32[len] = Math.random() < 0.5 ? 0 : -1>>0;
ctx.putImageData(idata, 0, 0);
}
/* for browsers wo/2d alpha disable support */
#c {background:#000}
<canvas id=c width=640 height=320></canvas>
A very efficient way, at the cost of some memory but reduced cost on the CPU, is to pre-render a larger off-screen canvas with the noise once, then place that canvas into the main one using random integer offsets.
It require a few extra preparation steps but the loop can run entirely on the GPU.
var w = c.width;
var h = c.height;
var ocanvas = document.createElement("canvas"); // create off-screen canvas
ocanvas.width = w<<1; // set offscreen canvas x2 size
ocanvas.height = h<<1;
var octx = ocanvas.getContext("2d", {alpha: false});
var idata = octx.createImageData(ocanvas.width, ocanvas.height);
var buffer32 = new Uint32Array(idata.data.buffer); // get 32-bit view
// render noise once, to the offscreen-canvas
noise(octx);
// main loop draw the offscreen canvas to random offsets
var ctx = c.getContext("2d", {alpha: false});
(function loop() {
var x = (w * Math.random())|0; // force integer values for position
var y = (h * Math.random())|0;
ctx.drawImage(ocanvas, -x, -y); // draw static noise (pun intended)
requestAnimationFrame(loop)
})()
function noise(ctx) {
var len = buffer32.length - 1;
while(len--) buffer32[len] = Math.random() < 0.5 ? 0 : -1>>0;
ctx.putImageData(idata, 0, 0);
}
/* for browsers wo/2d alpha disable support */
#c {background:#000}
<canvas id=c width=640 height=320></canvas>
Do note though that with the latter technique you may risk getting "freezes" where the new random offset is similar to the previous one. To work around this problem, set criteria for the random position to disallow too close positions in a row.
I tried to make a similar function a while ago. I set each pixel random value, and in addition to that, I overlayed a sinusodial wave that traveled upwards with time just to make it look more realistic. You can play with the constants in the wave to get different effects.
var canvas = null;
var context = null;
var time = 0;
var intervalId = 0;
var makeNoise = function() {
var imgd = context.createImageData(canvas.width, canvas.height);
var pix = imgd.data;
for (var i = 0, n = pix.length; i < n; i += 4) {
var c = 7 + Math.sin(i/50000 + time/7); // A sine wave of the form sin(ax + bt)
pix[i] = pix[i+1] = pix[i+2] = 40 * Math.random() * c; // Set a random gray
pix[i+3] = 255; // 100% opaque
}
context.putImageData(imgd, 0, 0);
time = (time + 1) % canvas.height;
}
var setup = function() {
canvas = document.getElementById("tv");
context = canvas.getContext("2d");
}
setup();
intervalId = setInterval(makeNoise, 50);
<canvas id="tv" width="400" height="300"></canvas>
I used it as a preloader on a site. I also added a volume rocker as a loading bar, here's a screenshot:
I re-wrote your code so each step is separate so you can re-use things without having to create and re-create each time, reduced in-loop calls and hopefully made it clear enough to be able to follow by reading it.
function generateNoise(opacity, h, w) {
function makeCanvas(h, w) {
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.height = h;
canvas.width = w;
return canvas;
}
function randomise(data, opacity) { // see prev. revision for 8-bit
var i, x;
for (i = 0; i < data.length; ++i) {
x = Math.floor(Math.random() * 0xffffff); // random RGB
data[i] = x | opacity; // set all of RGBA for pixel in one go
}
}
function initialise(opacity, h, w) {
var canvas = makeCanvas(h, w),
context = canvas.getContext('2d'),
image = context.createImageData(h, w),
data = new Uint32Array(image.data.buffer);
opacity = Math.floor(opacity * 0x255) << 24; // make bitwise OR-able
return function () {
randomise(data, opacity); // could be in-place for less overhead
context.putImageData(image, 0, 0);
// you may want to consider other ways of setting the canvas
// as the background so you can take this out of the loop, too
document.body.style.backgroundImage = "url(" + canvas.toDataURL("image/png") + ")";
};
}
return initialise(opacity || 0.2, h || 55, w || 55);
}
Now you can create some interval or timeout loop which keeps re-invoking the generated function.
window.setInterval(
generateNoise(.8, 200, 200),
100
);
Or with requestAnimationFrame as in Ken's answer
var noise = generateNoise(.8, 200, 200);
(function loop() {
noise();
requestAnimationFrame(loop);
})();
DEMO
Ken's answer looked pretty good, but after looking at some videos of real TV static, I had some ideas and here's what I came up with (two versions):
http://jsfiddle.net/2bzqs/
http://jsfiddle.net/EnQKm/
Summary of changes:
Instead of every pixel being independently assigned a color, a run of multiple pixels will get a single color, so you get these short, variable-sized horizontal lines.
I apply a gamma curve (with the Math.pow) to bias the color toward black a little.
I don't apply the gamma in a "band" area to simulate the banding.
Here's the main part of the code:
var w = ctx.canvas.width,
h = ctx.canvas.height,
idata = ctx.createImageData(w, h),
buffer32 = new Uint32Array(idata.data.buffer),
len = buffer32.length,
run = 0,
color = 0,
m = Math.random() * 6 + 4,
band = Math.random() * 256 * 256,
p = 0,
i = 0;
for (; i < len;) {
if (run < 0) {
run = m * Math.random();
p = Math.pow(Math.random(), 0.4);
if (i > band && i < band + 48 * 256) {
p = Math.random();
}
color = (255 * p) << 24;
}
run -= 1;
buffer32[i++] = color;
}
I happen to have just written a script that does just this, by getting the pixels from a black canvas and just altering random alpha values and using putImageData
Result can be found at http://mouseroot.github.io/Video/index.html
var currentAnimationFunction = staticScreen
var screenObject = document.getElementById("screen").getContext("2d");
var pixels = screenObject.getImageData(0,0,500,500);
function staticScreen()
{
requestAnimationFrame(currentAnimationFunction);
//Generate static
for(var i=0;i < pixels.data.length;i+=4)
{
pixels.data[i] = 255;
pixels.data[i + 1] = 255;
pixels.data[i + 2] = 255;
pixels.data[i + 3] = Math.floor((254-155)*Math.random()) + 156;
}
screenObject.putImageData(pixels,0,0,0,0,500,500);
//Draw 'No video input'
screenObject.fillStyle = "black";
screenObject.font = "30pt consolas";
screenObject.fillText("No video input",100,250,500);
}
Mine doesn't look identical to real TV static, but it's similar nonetheless. I'm just looping through all the pixels on canvas, and changing the RGB colour components of each pixel at a random coordinate to a random colour. The demo can be found over at CodePen.
The code is as follows:
// Setting up the canvas - size, setting a background, and getting the image data(all of the pixels) of the canvas.
canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
canvas.width = 400;
canvas.height = 400;
canvasData = ctx.createImageData(canvas.width, canvas.height);
//Event listeners that set the canvas size to that of the window when the page loads, and each time the user resizes the window
window.addEventListener("load", windowResize);
window.addEventListener("resize", windowResize);
function windowResize(){
canvas.style.width = window.innerWidth + 'px';
canvas.style.height = window.innerHeight + 'px';
}
//A function that manipulates the array of pixel colour data created above using createImageData()
function setPixel(x, y, r, g, b, a){
var index = (x + y * canvasData.width) * 4;
canvasData.data[index] = r;
canvasData.data[index + 1] = g;
canvasData.data[index + 2] = b;
canvasData.data[index + 3] = a;
}
window.requestAnimationFrame(mainLoop);
function mainLoop(){
// Looping through all the colour data and changing each pixel to a random colour at a random coordinate, using the setPixel function defined earlier
for(i = 0; i < canvasData.data.length / 4; i++){
var red = Math.floor(Math.random()*256);
var green = Math.floor(Math.random()*256);
var blue = Math.floor(Math.random()*256);
var randX = Math.floor(Math.random()*canvas.width);
var randY = Math.floor(Math.random()*canvas.height);
setPixel(randX, randY, red, green, blue, 255);
}
//Place the image data we created and manipulated onto the canvas
ctx.putImageData(canvasData, 0, 0);
//And then do it all again...
window.requestAnimationFrame(mainLoop);
}
You can do it like this:
window.setInterval('generateNoise(.8)',50);
The 2nd arg 50 is a delay in milliseconds. Increasing 50 will slow it down and decreasing visa versa.
though.. this is going to severely affect web page performance. If it were me, I'd do the rendering server-side and render a handful of frame iterations and output as an animated gif. Not quite the same as infinite randomness, but would be a huge performance boost and IMO most people won't even notice.
I have a static image (a png) that I'm drawing on a canvas element using drawImage.
var _canvas = null;
var _context = null;
var _curImageData;
function copyImageToCanvas(aImg)
{
_canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var w = aImg.naturalWidth;
var h = aImg.naturalHeight;
_canvas.width = w;
_canvas.height = h;
_context = _canvas.getContext("2d");
_context.clearRect(0, 0, w, h);
_context.drawImage(aImg, 0, 0);
_curImageData = _context.getImageData(0, 0, w, h);
}
I then manipulate the image data pixel by pixel (setting the opacity to 255 or 0 depending on the pixel value) and then update the canvas using putImageData.
function updateImage(maxPixelValToShow)
{
for (var x = 0; x < _curImageData.width; x++)
for (var y = 0; y < _curImageData.height; y++)
{
var offset = (y * _curImageData.width + x) * 4;
var r = _curImageData.data[offset];
var g = _curImageData.data[offset + 1];
var b = _curImageData.data[offset + 2];
var a = _curImageData.data[offset + 3];
var pixelNum = ((g * 255) + b);
//if greater than max or black/no data
if (pixelNum > maxPixelValToShow || (!r && !g && !b)) {
_curImageData.data[offset + 3] = 0;
} else {
_curImageData.data[offset + 3] = 255;
}
}
_context.putImageData(_curImageData, 0, 0);
}
And this all works perfectly. The issue I'm having is when I create a canvas twice the size of my image (or half the size, for that matter) and draw the image to fit the canvas size.
function copyImageToCanvas(aImg)
{
_canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var w = aImg.naturalWidth * 2; //double the size!
var h = aImg.naturalHeight * 2; //double the size!
_canvas.width = w;
_canvas.height = h;
_context = _canvas.getContext("2d");
_context.clearRect(0, 0, w, h);
_context.drawImage(aImg, 0, 0, w, h);
_curImageData = _context.getImageData(0, 0, w, h);
}
I'm getting lots of strange artifacts around the edges of my image when I call my updateImage function. Does anyone know a) why this is happening and b) what can I do about it?
Here are some images to show what is being generated:
The original image
The original image after my updateImage function call
The resized image
The resized image after my updateImage function call
[Solution]
Thanks Adam and sunetos, that was the problem. It worked fine once I setup one canvas to store the original file data and do the pixel manipulation and another only for display. Code snippet below:
function updateImage(maxPixelValToShow) {
//manipulate the _workingContext data
_workingContext.putImageData(_curImageData, 0, 0);
_displayContext.clearRect(0, 0, _workingCanvas.width*_scale, _workingCanvas.height*_scale);
_displayContext.drawImage(_workingCanvas, 0, 0, _workingCanvas.width*_scale, _workingCanvas.height*_scale);
}
It looks like the image smoothing used by the browser when scaling up the image in drawImage() antialiased the edges of your shape, causing new intermediate color values around the edge that are not handled by your updateImage() function. Like Adam commented, you should apply your updateImage() logic against the unmodified original pixels, and then scale it.