Re: Please consider elliptical arc in canvas

There seems to be consensus that a drawPath-style method can be added to Canvas 2d. So you'd no longer need an svg path implementation.

Would that sufficiently address the issue?

-Charles



On Nov 13, 2011, at 3:27 AM, "Shaofei Cheng" <csf178@163.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
> These days I'm working on a simple wrapping of canvas and just noticed that canvas leaks of elliptical canvas.arc APIs for path.
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> What I want to implement is like the following:
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>     var canvas = new CanvasWraper(myCanvas);
>     canvas.drawPath("M200,300 Q400,50 600,300 T1000,300");
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> The main purpose is to draw a path in canvas in SVG grammar. Everything goes well except the "A" command. Canvas 2d context do not have a API for arc of ellipse. So in the following picture(which is a sample of SVG). The left graph could be draw with canvas but the right could not.
> This path grammar is also supported by silverlight. 
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> So I suggest to add a elliptical arc API for path. With that we can keep the feature align with SVG.Also I think elliptical arc could be useful for some graphics games. 
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> (We are able to approx elliptical arc with cubic bezer, but I think the algorithm is too complex for web developers )
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> Thanks,
> Shaofei Cheng
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