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Explore how to use the requestAnimationFrame function to create smooth, optimized animations on the HTML5 Canvas. Understand why it isn't a loop or timer and learn how to repeatedly call it within your animation callback for continuous updates.

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The way you use requestAnimationFrame is very simple. Whenever you want to redraw your screen, simply call it along with the name of your animation loop function (aka a callback) that is responsible for drawing stuff to your ...