10 recent HTML5 canvas tutorials

in today’s collection i gathered all the latest tutorials on html5 (canvas). i hope that they will help you to learn how to work with html5 (javascript) more clearly. some of them are initial articles on game development, but, you can also find here other interesting articles like typographic effects, charts, curves, triangle meshes and even ascii animation.

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1. ping-pong game tutorial with html5 canvas and sounds

making games in html5 canvas is not that hard once you learn the logic of the game you are creating. in this tutorial, you will learn how to create a not-so-basic ping-pong game in canvas.

2. create a game character with html5

in this series we will explore how to create a game character using html5 canvas and javascript.

3. html5 canvas interactive scatter plot with 20,000 nodes using kineticjs

the purpose of this lab is to demonstrate she shear number of nodes that kineticjs can handle by rendering 20,000 circles which are sensitive to mouseover events and can be drag and dropped.

4. typographic effects in canvas

the following examples deal with one area in <canvas> that hasn’t gotten much attention; creating text-effects. the variety of text-effects that can be created in <canvas> are as vast as you can imagine—these demos cover a sub-section of what is possible.

5. bring your charts to life with html5

this article demonstrates how to create an animated bar chart on the html5 canvas using a little bit of javascript and a little bit of imagination

6. how to build a racing game

this article describes how to create an interactive racing game in canvas.

7. curves

just playing around with some generative type drawing today, using curves.

8. triangle mesh for 3d objects in html5

today’s lesson is a bridge between two-dimensional graphics in html5 and truly three-dimensional (using webgl). today i will show how to draw three-dimensional objects using a polygonal mesh.

9. ascii animation

images can be converted into ascii art by turning the pixels grayscale and representing them using text characters. dense characters are used for dark pixels and sparse characters are used for light pixels.

10. html5 color picker (canvas)

in our new tutorial we are going to create an easy, but effective color picker using html5. i think that you have already seen different jquery versions of colorpicker, our today’s goal – to create something similar, and even better.