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The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript
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The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to Learn HTML5 and JavaScript

by Jeanine Meyer
October 2010
Beginner
373 pages
7h 28m
English
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Chapter 3. Bouncing Ball

Bouncing Ball
  • creating programmer-defined objects

  • using setInterval for animation

  • drawing images

  • form input and validating form input

  • for loops

  • drawing with gradients

Introduction

Animation, whether at the movies, using a flipbook, or generated by computer, involves displaying a sequence of still images fast enough so that we interpret what we see as movement, as life. In this chapter, I'll show you how to produce animated scenes by simulating a ball bouncing in a 2-dimensional box, with horizontal and vertical speeds that can by changed by a player. The first iteration of our program calculates new positions for the ball at fixed intervals ...

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