The goal of this project is to make a cool background with randomized shapes and to be customizable.
Demo: https://canvas-shapes-background.netlify.app/
Code: https://github.com/MaurerKrisztian/CanvasShapesBackground
Simple example usage:
https://codepen.io/maurerkrisztian/pen/rNdGerb
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Title</title>
<script type='text/javascript' src="https://canvas-shapes-background.netlify.app/bundle.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="myCanvas"></canvas>
<script>
createShapeCanvas("myCanvas", {
modelNumbers: 11,
colors: ['blue', 'red', 'green', 'yellow'],
backgroundColor: 'black', //'none',
enabledModels: ['Triangle', 'Circle', 'Rect'],
minSpeed: 11,
maxSpeed: 11,
lineWidth: 3,
sizeMultiplier: 2,
startPosition: 'random' // 'middle' | 'random',
isFullScreen: true,
})
</script>
</body>
</html>
I added a configurator with the demo: https://canvas-shapes-background.netlify.app/
- Easily test different configs and copy the configured settings.
"createShapeCanvas" has 2 arg
- canvas id
- config
config
- startPosition: 'middle' | 'random' initial model position
- enabledModels: thies shapes will be generated randomly
- modelNumbers: generate this amount of models from "enabledModels" array
- colors: pisck random color from this array for shapes
- backgroundColor: canvas background color, can be "none"
- minSpeed: shape min speed
- maxSpeed: shape max speed
- lineWidth: shape border line width
- sizeMultiplier: multiply the generated size with this
- isFullScreen: fullscreen or element size
How I made it?
I used HTML Canvas.
I wanted to be easily extendable, so abstracted some thing:
Animator:
- it is responsible for setup every frame and call the modell update()
Model:
- has 2 main responsibility:
- draw() - draw the shape,
- update()
- howto behave based on the current x,y position and
- xd, dy aka where to want to move and how fast.
If you confused how dx, dy it works it basicly a vector.
it has a direction (this will be the model direction) and a length (this will be the model speed).
Example model:
export class CircleModel implements IModel {
static MODEL_NAME = 'Circle'
color: string;
constructor(private x: number, private y: number, private dx: number, private dy: number, private radius: number, private lineWidth: number = Setup.CONFIG.lineWidth) {
this.color = Utils.pickRandomFromArray<string>(Setup.CONFIG.colors)
}
draw(context: CanvasRenderingContext2D) {
context.lineWidth = this.lineWidth;
context.beginPath();
context.arc(this.x, this.y, this.radius, 0, Math.PI * 2, false);
context.strokeStyle = this.color;
context.stroke();
context.lineWidth = DEFAULT_LINE_WIDTH;
}
update(context: CanvasRenderingContext2D) {
if (this.x > Context.canvasWidth - this.radius || this.x < 0 + this.radius) {
this.dx = -this.dx;
}
if (this.y > Context.canvasHeight - this.radius || this.y < 0 + this.radius) {
this.dy = -this.dy;
}
this.x = this.x + this.dx;
this.y = this.y + this.dy;
this.draw(context);
}
}
I wanted to baunce of from the side of the canvas so
Good to know where is the canvas side.
Coordinate system:
So x(0) the left min position and x(canvasWidth) the right side posion, similarly with y.
if (this.x > Context.canvasWidth - this.radius || this.x < 0 + this.radius) {
this.dx = -this.dx;
}
If the current position (center of the circle) greather than canvas width - radius than change the x direction
Similarly with y.
At the end we need to set the new position:
this.x = this.x + this.dx;
this.y = this.y + this.dy;
I made 3 model: Cirle, Rect, Triangle.
But you can add easily your model:
- create a model
- add to ModelFactory
private static createRandomModel() {
const speed = Utils.generateRandom(Setup.CONFIG.minSpeed, Setup.CONFIG.maxSpeed)
const randoModelName = Utils.pickRandomFromArray(Setup.CONFIG.enabledModels)
switch (randoModelName) {
case CircleModel.MODEL_NAME:
return this.createRandomCircle(speed)
break;
case TriangleModel.MODEL_NAME:
return this.createRandomTriangle(speed)
break;
case RectModel.MODEL_NAME:
return this.createRandomRect(speed)
break;
default:
throw new Error(`Model not found with name: ${randoModelName}`)
}
}
Howto create importable script?
I just added the init function to the window so you can import the bundle script and call this function.
window.createShapeCanvas = createShapeCanvas
Future plans:
- add more models
- add more config options
- create a react component and publish to npm
Top comments (1)
What do you think? should I make it a react component?