(Literally) Drawing the HTML 5 Logo in Canvas with Javascript

by richchanon 1/26/2011, 10:31:00 PM with 6 comments
  • by jinushaunon 1/26/2011, 11:15:08 PM

    I don't understand why people are impressed by HTML Canvas demos. It's like getting impressed by a calculator adding two numbers together. Or being impressed by a for loop statement in a language. Or being impressed by an fopen statement to read files.

    A collection of drawRect, drawCircle and setBrushColor calls isn't impressive just because it's done in JS. That's what graphics libraries are supposed to do. Maybe I'm missing something here...

  • by chaosmachineon 1/26/2011, 10:41:59 PM

    Click the redraw button a bunch of times while it's still drawing for an interesting effect.

  • by ttolon 1/26/2011, 11:14:47 PM

    Increasing the sloppiness makes this way cooler. +1

  • by holdenkon 1/27/2011, 7:29:46 AM

    Semi-related: Whats a good fall-back for when webgl isn't directly supported in the browser?

  • by smackfuon 1/27/2011, 1:18:32 AM

    Cool, but needs a cancel button that stops drawing and re-enables the sliders.

  • by notJimon 1/27/2011, 1:54:59 AM

    This is hacker news, shouldn't they be evolving the shape, instead of just straight drawing it? Also, it should be powered by node.js somehow, and have $3 million in seed funding.