GWT: Drawing ImageElement on context2D with rotation - html

I am looking for a way to draw an image on a context2D with rotation of the image.
I tried:
imageElement.getStyle().setProperty("transform", "rotate(-45deg)");
It did not work and the image was not rotated.
Any other ways to rotate the image?

Use the setTransform method to apply the transformation on the Context2D, then drawImage.

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Html5 canvas and video

How can I make a canvas for the video to fit perfectly in the area
See picture
...It can't be done with native Html5 Canvas transformations.
You are trying to transform the display Canvas content (== your video) into a non-parallelogram -- which is not possible with native Canvas transformations. The Canvas can only be reshaped into parallelograms.
But...
You can skew the canvas to approximate your desired display.
The gold parallelogram in this image can be done with native Canvas transformations
Example code an a Demo:
var canvas=document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx=canvas.getContext("2d");
var cw=canvas.width;
var ch=canvas.height;
var angle=-Math.PI*.06;
var img=new Image();
img.onload=start;
img.src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/139992952/multple/billboard1.jpg";
function start(){
cw=canvas.width=img.width;
ch=canvas.height=img.height;
ctx.drawImage(img,0,0);
ctx.transform(1,Math.tan(angle),0,1,0,0);
ctx.strokeStyle='gold';
ctx.lineWidth=4;
ctx.strokeRect(333,135,275,150);
}
<canvas id="canvas" width=300 height=300></canvas>
Drawing process
Prepare the background image offline by removing the red area making an alpha channel out of it instead, then use it like this:
Draw the video to canvas with transformation applied matching closely the shape plus a little overlap
Draw the background (or parts of it after first draw) on top of the video. This will mask the edges of the video that doesn't fit perfectly.
Transformation
Offline process:
Plot the points of the (now) alpha area so you have the coordinates, either a triangle or a quadrilateral. Note: canvas only support affine transformations (2D/parallelograms) so triangle has to be used. For CSS you can use 3D transforms with basis in a quadrilateral shape.
Normalize the values
In action:
Scale the canvas and the normalized values to the desired size
Apply transform, draw video, draw background as overlay on top of video
And since most video is max 30 frames per second you can also throttle the drawing loop to half to leave more resources for other things (use requestAnimationFrame() with a toggle flag).
Alternative approach:
Prepare a video with everything setup as you want. It should compress well since the surrounding areas don't change (use a long key-frame interval), and in this case the background doesn't contain much details due to low depth-of-field which also helps.

How to implement rotating rectangle around circle in libGDX Box2D?

I want to implement rotating rectangle around cicrle in such way, that circle has no rotation, and rectangle has. All object's are Box2D Body objects. Here is picture, what I want to have:
In my case rectangle touches circle, but I think it doesn't matter.
At first I tried to do it with two Fictures for same Body, but there was a problem with rotation: I couldn't have one ficture with rotation and another without.
I think, it should be somehow connected with joints, but I don't know what exactly Joint I should use. Maybe are there another solutions?
I think DistanceJointDef will do the tricks
you could put the radius if the circle as the distance with a little margin if you want
you also have to reduce the friction of bodies so the rectangle can move smoothly
DistanceJointDef djd = new DistanceJointDef();
djd.bodyA = bodyRactangle;
djd.bodyB = bodyCirlce;
djd.length = radius + margin;
world.createJoint(djd);
bodyRactangle is a dynamic body
bodyCirlce is a static body
try that for a start, hope it is helpful
Good luck !!

actionscript: creating a soft mask using vector shape

I have an hourglass like vector shape and I'd like to use it to mask an image. I'd like to feather the edges - have a soft falloff in transparency that follows the contours of the hour glass. Any ideas how I can do this?
I tried using a gradient fill on a closed shape (using beginGradientFill() and curveTo() functions) but that falloff doesn't follow the contour of the vector shape, it can only go one direction.
Maybe there is a better solution but until somebody comes up with it... I assume you could do the following:
Draw whatever shape you want to use as mask into a transparent bitmap.
Scale a bit the bitmap down (or use a matrix while drawing its bitmapdata).
Apply a blur filter to it.
Put the bitmap's center to the masked clip's center so they are aligned.
Set the masked clip's cacheAsBitmap property to true.

How to get rid of feathered edges on HTML5 Canvas strokes?

Currently, when using the HTML5 canvas element, stroked paths have slightly feathered edges.
Here is some example code I am using:
this.context.lineJoin = "round";
this.context.lineTo(x1, y1);
this.context.lineTo(x2, y2);
this.context.closePath();
this.context.stroke();
I was wondering if there was a way to create lines without slightly feathered edges.
When drawing lines, canvas automatically antialiases them, which is what you describe as feathered edges.
To avoid antialiasing, you will need to draw the lines manually using putImageData directly. (see MDN for canvas pixel manipulation)
A suitable algorithm for this is Bresenham's line algorithm which is quite easy to implement for JS/canvas.
Canvas uses subpixel accuracy.
Add 0.5 to your coorxinates. 0.0 is the border between pixels and thus line falls on two image data pixels.

How to draw a circle sector on an html5 canvas?

I'm trying to make a sort of pie-chart shape on a canvas element, however I can't seem to find any function that does this by itself. I only seem to be able to draw full circles and segments. Is there an easy way to do this?
(See also: Wikipedia on circle terminology)
The following should work:
context.moveTo(cx,cy);
context.arc(cx,cy,radius,startangle,endangle);
context.lineTo(cx,cy);
context.stroke(); // or context.fill()
with cx, cy being the center of the arc.