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HTML5 Canvas Cookbook
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HTML5 Canvas Cookbook

by Eric Rowell
November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
7h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating microscopic life forms

Have you ever seen microscopic life forms in a microscope and observed how they wiggle around? This recipe is inspired by the alien-like world of micro-organisms. In this recipe, we'll create 100 random microbes and let them loose in the canvas.

Creating microscopic life forms

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create wiggling microbes moving inside the canvas:

  1. Link to the Animation class:
    <head>
        <script src="animation.js">
        </script>
  2. Define the getRandColor() function that returns a random color:
     <script> function getRandColor(){ var colors = ["red", "orange", "yellow", "green", "blue", "violet"]; return colors[Math.floor(Math.random() * colors.length)]; ...
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