Tiny-Canvas

Tiny-Canvas is composed by two minimal and lightweight rendering modules. One called TinyCanvas and the other one called TinySprite. Both of this modules use WebGL as a rendering backend for high performance. None of them falls back to canvas to keep the size of the library as small as possible. Tiny-Canvas modules are great if you have limited space (ex: Limited size contests) and want to have WebGL features like custom shaders.

The main difference between TinyCanvas and TinySprite is that the first one implements a simple matrix stack to enable multiple layers of transformation, this would allow an easy implementation of a scene graph type of structure. TinySprite is mostly useful if you are working on a single layer of transformation. This means that TinySprite is a bit faster than TinyCanvas but less flexible.

Modules size

TinyCanvas zipped size is: 1571 bytes

TinyCanvas compiled size is: 3195 bytes

TinyCanvas full size is: 10335 bytes

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TinySprite zipped size is: 1416 bytes

TinySprite compiled size is: 3137 bytes

TinySprite full size is: 9844 bytes

Examples

Small KittenMark Example (TinyCanvas)

Small KittenMark Example (TinySprite)

TinyCanvas Module

TinyCanvas module is instanced using the construction function TC or TinyCanvas if working with unminified version. The function requires as a parameter a HTML Canvas element.

var canvas = TC(document.getElementsByClassName('canvas')[0]);

TinyCanvas Properties:

• g : WebGLRenderingContext : Reference to the WebGL Context used by the renderer.
• c : HTMLCanvasElement : Reference to the HTML Canvas Element used by the renderer.
• col: Number : Integer number representing the current tint color on the canvas. It's represented like ARGB (ex: 0xFFFFFFFF).

TinyCanvas Methods:

• bkg(red : Number, green : Number, blue : Number) : void: Sets the background color. Maps to glClearColor. It requires normilized to 1.0 values.
• cls() : void: Clear the current frame buffer.
• trans(x : Number, y : Number) : void: Applies translate transformation to current matrix.
• scale(x : Number, y : Number) : void: Applies scale transformation to current matrix.
• rot(radians : Number) : void: Applies rotation transformation to current matrix.
• push() : void: Pushes the current matrix into the matrix stack.
• pop() : void: Pops the matrix stack into the current matrix.
• img( texture : WebGLTexture, x : Number, y : Number, width : Number, height : Number, u0 : Number, v0 : Number, u1 : Number, v1 : Number) : void: Batches texture rendering properties. NOTE: If you are not drawing a tile of a texture then you can set u0 = 0, v0 = 0, u1 = 1 and v1 = 1.
• flush() : void: Pushes the current batch information to the GPU for rendering.

TinySprite Module

TinySprite module is instanced using the construction function TS or TinySprite if working with unminified version. The function requires as a parameter a HTML Canvas element.

var canvas = TS(document.getElementsByClassName('canvas')[0]);

TinySprite Properties:

• g : WebGLRenderingContext : Reference to the WebGL Context used by the renderer.
• c : HTMLCanvasElement : Reference to the HTML Canvas Element used by the renderer.
• col: Number : Integer number representing the current tint color on the canvas. It's represented like ARGB (ex: 0xFFFFFFFF).

TinySprite Methods:

• bkg(red : Number, green : Number, blue : Number) : void: Sets the background color. Maps to glClearColor. It requires normilized to 1.0 values.
• cls() : void: Clear the current frame buffer.
• img( texture : WebGLTexture, x : Number, y : Number, width : Number, height : Number, rotation: Number, translateX: Number, translateY: Number, scaleX: Number, scaleY: Number, u0 : Number, v0 : Number, u1 : Number, v1 : Number) : void: Batches texture rendering properties. It's very similar to TinyCanvas img method but here you must pass the transformation parameters drawing function. This is because TinySprite doesn't have a matrix stack. NOTE: If you are not drawing a tile of a texture then you can set u0 = 0, v0 = 0, u1 = 1 and v1 = 1.
• flush() : void: Pushes the current batch information to the GPU for rendering.

Utility Functions

Tiny-Canvas comes with a couple of utility functions for easy creation of some WebGL primitives.

• TCPrg(gl : WebGLRenderingContext, vsSrouce : String, fsSource : String) : WebGLProgram : Compiles a vertex and fragment shader and then links them to program.

• TCBuf(gl : WebGLRenderingContext, bufferType : Number, size : Number, usage : Number) : WebGlBuffer : Creates and allocates a buffer object.

• TCTex(gl : WebGLRenderingContext, image : (Image | ArrayBuffer), width : Number, height: Number) : WebGLTexture

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Developed by Felipe Alfonso.

The license for this software is WTFPL.