Animating on the Canvas
Explore how to animate graphics on the HTML5 canvas by sequentially drawing and clearing frames using JavaScript. Understand how to create smooth, dynamic animations through intermediate states and frame-by-frame updates, enabling you to bring static canvas drawings to life with motion.
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In the previous sections, we looked at some basic things about animations and how to think about them. It’s time to move beyond that and focus a bit more on the details. The way you draw and animate on a canvas is very similar to how people created animations manually back in the day.
Initially, your canvas is completely blank. Let’s call this initial state frame 1:
In this blank ...