HTML5 Canvas

HTML5 Canvas Particles Revisisted — With Physics!

Posted by Tim in Code

While I wrote a few years ago about HTML5 canvas particle effects, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the effect I have on my new personal site. No, not the crazy swirling thing on the left—we’ll go over that another time—but the fun little bouncy ball thing. Go ahead and check it out. I’ll wait. Pretty cool, right? It’s written entirely without any framework or library like jQuery or D3.js or Three.js. While they’re pretty handy for compatibility, data visualization, and comprehensive 3D graphics rendering (respectively), I didn’t have…read more

Using Three.js and JigLibJS Together

Posted by Tim in Code

For whatever reason, one of my projects at my current employer led me to a need for doing some 3D work in HTML5′s canvas element. After a few hack-ish, amateur attempts at repurposing what I’d done for Mega Hovertank Wars, I decided to use something with a community behind it and found three.js from Mr.doob, a man you may have heard of through his work on Arcade Fire’s HTML5 experiment “The Wilderness Downtown.” There are plenty of other options out there (including some that use WebGL rather than a pure…read more