particle animation

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

HTML5 Canvas Particle Animation

Posted by Tim in Code

UPDATE: yes, I know some people out there will see some flickering when viewing the demo. This is because a) I didn’t implement a double buffer, and b) there is no built-in canvas support for double buffering. There is a very simple solution, but I’ll save that for another time. Having never really been a user of Apple products, I guess it’s not all that surprising that I’ve never been to the MobileMe website. However, after Googling something like the lines of “most popular e-mail providers,” I came across its…read more