Animating a line
This animated line recipe shows a very basic animation, in which the line moves to and fro. The output of the recipe is shown here:
How to do it…
The actual output is a single canvas with the animated line. The previous image tries to help you visualize the frames in different stages of the animation. You need to try this example to get a feel. The code is given as follows:
The HTML code:
<html> <head> <title>A simple line animation</title> <script src="LineAnimation.js"></script> </head> <body onload="init();"> <canvas id="MyCanvasArea" width="300" height="200" style="border:2px solid blue;" > your browser does not support canvas </canvas> <h1>An animated line</h1> </body> </html>
The JavaScript file, as mentioned in the <script> tag in the previous code:
var x = 0;
var y = 80;
var xEnd=200;
var goRight=true;
var canvas;
var context;
function animate() {
reqAnimFrame = window.mozRequestAnimationFrame...
