Create a 3D Cube on Canvas Using HTML5

Manish Singh
May 19, 2012
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Introduction

This is a simple application for beginners that shows how to create a 3D cube on a canvas using HTML5. We know that HTML 5 is the advanced version of HTML. Basically HTML 5 can be used to develop 3D applications. This article is intended to help with the use of HTML5 tools to develop a 3D cube on a canvas applications. The <canvas> tag is an HTML element which can be used to draw graphics using scripting. It can be used to draw graphs, make photo compositions or do simple animations. The <canvas> element is a bitmap drawing API and once you have committed to a set of pixels you are stuck with them. Canvas is an important tag of HTML 5 that is used to show the image and text in a HTML 5 application. I hope this article helps to Create a 3D cube on a Canvas Using HTML5 tools.

Step 1: First open a HTML editor such as Notepad.

Open start->Notepad.
The name of editor is "slide".

Step 2: Create a Folder on a desktop.

Right-click on desktop->new->Folder.
Name of folder is "Tom".

Step 3: Open Visual Studio.

Go to file -> New->Projects.
Crete an ASP. NET Web Application.
Name of "cube.aspx".

Step 4: Add a HTML file to your web application.

Right-click on Solution Explorer.
Add->add new item->HTML form.
The Name of the HTML form is "Democube.html".

Step 5: Now in this step we apply a style of cube page. Set a color and background color of a page.

Code

body *
{

font-family:Verdana;

font-size: 24px;

}

body.red
{

background-color:Orange;

color:Green;

}

body.sky
{

background-color:Green;

color:Orange;

}

body.sky a:link, body.sky a:visited, body.sky a:hover, body.sky a:active
{

color:Orange;

}

body.red a:link, body.red a:visited, body.red a:hover, body.red a:active
{

color:Green;

}

span.spaceyspan { margin-right: 20px; }

div.centeredDiv { text-align: center; }

li { list-style: none; }

td { padding-right: 10px; }

</style>

Step 6: Now in this step we set one HTML5 tool named canvas and set a height and width of a canvas.

Code

This is a cube perform a 3D functinality

</canvas>

</div>

Step 7: Now in this step we define a table content that presses a content after that performs an action.

Code

<table>

<tr><td>PRESS t</td><td>→</td><td>Change a color of background</td></tr>

<tr><td>PRESS p</td><td>→</td><td>Perform a pouse functionality</td></tr>

<tr><td>MOUSE</td><td>→</td><td>Rotate a cube</td></tr>

<tr><td>MOUSE + CTRL</td><td>→</td><td>pan a cube</td></tr>

<tr><td>MOUSE + SHIFT</td><td>→</td><td>pan cune on z</td></tr>

<tr><td>MOUSE + CTRL + SHIFT</td><td>→</td><td>Adjust a length</td></tr>

</table>

try
{

var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8603987-1");

pageTracker._trackPageview();

} catch (err) { }
</script>

Step 8: The complete image of the Democube application is given below.

Step 9: Complete code of cube demo application is given below.

Code

<html>

<head>

<title>Tom application</title>

body *
{

font-family:Verdana;

font-size: 24px;

}

body.red
{

background-color:Orange;

color:Green;

}

body.sky
{

background-color:Green;

color:Orange;

}

body.sky a:link, body.sky a:visited, body.sky a:hover, body.sky a:active
{

color:Orange;

}

body.red a:link, body.red a:visited, body.red a:hover, body.red a:active
{

color:Green;

}

span.spaceyspan { margin-right: 20px; }

div.centeredDiv { text-align: center; }

li { list-style: none; }

td { padding-right: 10px; }

</style>

<body class="sky">
<div class="centeredDiv" style="background-color: #FF99CC">
<canvas id="canvas" width="700" height="600">
   This is a cube perform a 3D functinality
</canvas>
</div>
<table>
<tr><td>PRESS t</td><td>→</td><td>Change a color of background</td></tr>
<tr><td>PRESS p</td><td>→</td><td>Perform a pouse functionality</td></tr>
<tr><td>MOUSE</td><td>→</td><td>Rotate a cube</td></tr>
<tr><td>MOUSE + CTRL</td><td>→</td><td>pan a cube</td></tr>
<tr><td>MOUSE + SHIFT</td><td>→</td><td>pan cune on z</td></tr>
<tr><td>MOUSE + CTRL + SHIFT</td><td>→</td><td>Adjust a length</td></tr>
</table>
<script type="text/javascript">
    try
   {
        var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8603987-1");
        pageTracker._trackPageview();
    } catch (err) { }
</script>
</body>
</html>