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Canvas Cookbook

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Canvas Cookbook

Overview of this book

With the growing popularity of HTML5 Canvas, this book offers tailored recipes to help you develop portable applications, presentations, and games. The recipes are simple yet creative and build on each other. At every step, the book inspires the reader to develop his/her own recipe. From basic to advanced, every aspect of Canvas API has been covered to guide readers to develop their own application, presentation, or game.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Canvas Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Drawing 3D cubes


When you hear the word 3D, the first shape that is visualized is a cube. Without a cube, the concept of 3D drawing is incomplete. So, here is a recipe on cubes. This recipe is a demonstration of four cubes: the first with multicolored faces, the second with a wireframe, the third with the same texture on each face, and the fourth with different textures on each face. The output looks as follows:

How to do it…

The HTML code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Cubes</title>
<script src="../threeLib/build/three.min.js"></script>
<script src="cubes.js">

</script>
</head>
<body onload="init()">
  <center>
  <canvas width="1000" height="600" id="MyCanvasArea" style="border:2px solid blue;" tabindex="0">
    Canvas tag is not supported by your browser
  </canvas>
  <h1>3D rotating cubes using three.js</h1>
  <h1>Use arrow keys to make the shapes rotate.<br>
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