Working with custom shapes and styles
Until now we have learned how to draw basic shapes such as lines, arcs, curves, andrectangles. However, using this knowledge you can draw various shapes, such as a pentagon, a hexagon, a cloud, and so on. Our new recipe shows you how. In addition, it also shows you the different ways of filling these shapes with different effects:
The output of our recipe is as follows:
How to do it…
The recipe is given as follows.
The HTML code:
<html> <head> <title>Clouds</title> <script src="clouds.js"></script> </head> <body onload="init()"> <canvas id="MyCanvasArea" width="800" height="300" style="border:2px solid blue;" > your browser does not support canvas</canvas> <h1>Cloudy Sky</h1> </body> </html>
The JavaScript code:
var can;
var ctx;
var color;
function init()
{
can=document.getElementById("MyCanvasArea"...
