how to draw smooth curve through N points using ja

For a drawing application I'm saving the mouse movement coordinates to an array then drawing them with lineTo. The resulting line is not smooth. How can I produce a single curve between all the gathered points?

I've googled but I have only found 3 functions for drawing lines: For 2 sample points, simply use lineTo. For 3 sample points quadraticCurveTo, for 4 sample points, bezierCurveTo.

(I tried drawing a bezierCurveTo for every 4 points in the array, but this leads to kinks every 4 sample points, instead of a continuous smooth curve.)

How do I write a function to draw a smooth curve with 5 sample points and beyond?

标签： javascript canvas html5-canvas bezier spline

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琉璃瓶的回忆

2楼-- · 2019-01-01 01:51

I found this to work nicely

function drawCurve(points, tension) {
    ctx.beginPath();
    ctx.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);

    var t = (tension != null) ? tension : 1;
    for (var i = 0; i < points.length - 1; i++) {
        var p0 = (i > 0) ? points[i - 1] : points[0];
        var p1 = points[i];
        var p2 = points[i + 1];
        var p3 = (i != points.length - 2) ? points[i + 2] : p2;

        var cp1x = p1.x + (p2.x - p0.x) / 6 * t;
        var cp1y = p1.y + (p2.y - p0.y) / 6 * t;

        var cp2x = p2.x - (p3.x - p1.x) / 6 * t;
        var cp2y = p2.y - (p3.y - p1.y) / 6 * t;

        ctx.bezierCurveTo(cp1x, cp1y, cp2x, cp2y, p2.x, p2.y);
    }
    ctx.stroke();
}

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回忆，回不去的记忆

3楼-- · 2019-01-01 01:57

I decide to add on, rather than posting my solution to another post. Below are the solution that I build, may not be perfect, but so far the output are good.

Important: it will pass through all the points!

If you have any idea, to make it better, please share to me. Thanks.

Here are the comparison of before after:

Save this code to HTML to test it out.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
    <canvas id="myCanvas" width="1200" height="700" style="border:1px solid #d3d3d3;">Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas tag.</canvas>
    <script>
        var cv = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var ctx = cv.getContext("2d");

        function gradient(a, b) {
            return (b.y-a.y)/(b.x-a.x);
        }

        function bzCurve(points, f, t) {
            //f = 0, will be straight line
            //t suppose to be 1, but changing the value can control the smoothness too
            if (typeof(f) == 'undefined') f = 0.3;
            if (typeof(t) == 'undefined') t = 0.6;

            ctx.beginPath();
            ctx.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);

            var m = 0;
            var dx1 = 0;
            var dy1 = 0;

            var preP = points[0];
            for (var i = 1; i < points.length; i++) {
                var curP = points[i];
                nexP = points[i + 1];
                if (nexP) {
                    m = gradient(preP, nexP);
                    dx2 = (nexP.x - curP.x) * -f;
                    dy2 = dx2 * m * t;
                } else {
                    dx2 = 0;
                    dy2 = 0;
                }
                ctx.bezierCurveTo(preP.x - dx1, preP.y - dy1, curP.x + dx2, curP.y + dy2, curP.x, curP.y);
                dx1 = dx2;
                dy1 = dy2;
                preP = curP;
            }
            ctx.stroke();
        }

        // Generate random data
        var lines = [];
        var X = 10;
        var t = 40; //to control width of X
        for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++ ) {
            Y = Math.floor((Math.random() * 300) + 50);
            p = { x: X, y: Y };
            lines.push(p);
            X = X + t;
        }

        //draw straight line
        ctx.beginPath();
        ctx.setLineDash([5]);
        ctx.lineWidth = 1;
        bzCurve(lines, 0, 1);

        //draw smooth line
        ctx.setLineDash([0]);
        ctx.lineWidth = 2;
        ctx.strokeStyle = "blue";
        bzCurve(lines, 0.3, 1);
    </script>
</body>
</html>

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路过你的时光

4楼-- · 2019-01-01 02:00

Incredibly late but inspired by Homan's brilliantly simple answer, allow me to post a more general solution (general in the sense that Homan's solution crashes on arrays of points with less than 3 vertices):

function smooth(ctx, points)
{
    if(points == undefined || points.length == 0)
    {
        return true;
    }
    if(points.length == 1)
    {
        ctx.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
        ctx.lineTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
        return true;
    }
    if(points.length == 2)
    {
        ctx.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
        ctx.lineTo(points[1].x, points[1].y);
        return true;
    }
    ctx.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
    for (var i = 1; i < points.length - 2; i ++)
    {
        var xc = (points[i].x + points[i + 1].x) / 2;
        var yc = (points[i].y + points[i + 1].y) / 2;
        ctx.quadraticCurveTo(points[i].x, points[i].y, xc, yc);
    }
    ctx.quadraticCurveTo(points[i].x, points[i].y, points[i+1].x, points[i+1].y);
}

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深知你不懂我心

5楼-- · 2019-01-01 02:02

A bit late, but for the record.

You can achieve smooth lines by using cardinal splines (aka canonical spline) to draw smooth curves that goes through the points.

I made this function for canvas - it's split into three function to increase versatility. The main wrapper function looks like this:

function drawCurve(ctx, ptsa, tension, isClosed, numOfSegments, showPoints) {

    showPoints  = showPoints ? showPoints : false;

    ctx.beginPath();

    drawLines(ctx, getCurvePoints(ptsa, tension, isClosed, numOfSegments));

    if (showPoints) {
        ctx.stroke();
        ctx.beginPath();
        for(var i=0;i<ptsa.length-1;i+=2) 
                ctx.rect(ptsa[i] - 2, ptsa[i+1] - 2, 4, 4);
    }
}

To draw a curve have an array with x, y points in the order: x1,y1, x2,y2, ...xn,yn.

Use it like this:

var myPoints = [10,10, 40,30, 100,10]; //minimum two points
var tension = 1;

drawCurve(ctx, myPoints); //default tension=0.5
drawCurve(ctx, myPoints, tension);

The function above calls two sub-functions, one to calculate the smoothed points. This returns an array with new points - this is the core function which calculates the smoothed points:

function getCurvePoints(pts, tension, isClosed, numOfSegments) {

    // use input value if provided, or use a default value   
    tension = (typeof tension != 'undefined') ? tension : 0.5;
    isClosed = isClosed ? isClosed : false;
    numOfSegments = numOfSegments ? numOfSegments : 16;

    var _pts = [], res = [],    // clone array
        x, y,           // our x,y coords
        t1x, t2x, t1y, t2y, // tension vectors
        c1, c2, c3, c4,     // cardinal points
        st, t, i;       // steps based on num. of segments

    // clone array so we don't change the original
    //
    _pts = pts.slice(0);

    // The algorithm require a previous and next point to the actual point array.
    // Check if we will draw closed or open curve.
    // If closed, copy end points to beginning and first points to end
    // If open, duplicate first points to befinning, end points to end
    if (isClosed) {
        _pts.unshift(pts[pts.length - 1]);
        _pts.unshift(pts[pts.length - 2]);
        _pts.unshift(pts[pts.length - 1]);
        _pts.unshift(pts[pts.length - 2]);
        _pts.push(pts[0]);
        _pts.push(pts[1]);
    }
    else {
        _pts.unshift(pts[1]);   //copy 1. point and insert at beginning
        _pts.unshift(pts[0]);
        _pts.push(pts[pts.length - 2]); //copy last point and append
        _pts.push(pts[pts.length - 1]);
    }

    // ok, lets start..

    // 1. loop goes through point array
    // 2. loop goes through each segment between the 2 pts + 1e point before and after
    for (i=2; i < (_pts.length - 4); i+=2) {
        for (t=0; t <= numOfSegments; t++) {

            // calc tension vectors
            t1x = (_pts[i+2] - _pts[i-2]) * tension;
            t2x = (_pts[i+4] - _pts[i]) * tension;

            t1y = (_pts[i+3] - _pts[i-1]) * tension;
            t2y = (_pts[i+5] - _pts[i+1]) * tension;

            // calc step
            st = t / numOfSegments;

            // calc cardinals
            c1 =   2 * Math.pow(st, 3)  - 3 * Math.pow(st, 2) + 1; 
            c2 = -(2 * Math.pow(st, 3)) + 3 * Math.pow(st, 2); 
            c3 =       Math.pow(st, 3)  - 2 * Math.pow(st, 2) + st; 
            c4 =       Math.pow(st, 3)  -     Math.pow(st, 2);

            // calc x and y cords with common control vectors
            x = c1 * _pts[i]    + c2 * _pts[i+2] + c3 * t1x + c4 * t2x;
            y = c1 * _pts[i+1]  + c2 * _pts[i+3] + c3 * t1y + c4 * t2y;

            //store points in array
            res.push(x);
            res.push(y);

        }
    }

    return res;
}

And to actually draw the points as a smoothed curve (or any other segmented lines as long as you have an x,y array):

function drawLines(ctx, pts) {
    ctx.moveTo(pts[0], pts[1]);
    for(i=2;i<pts.length-1;i+=2) ctx.lineTo(pts[i], pts[i+1]);
}

var ctx = document.getElementById("c").getContext("2d");


function drawCurve(ctx, ptsa, tension, isClosed, numOfSegments, showPoints) {

  ctx.beginPath();

  drawLines(ctx, getCurvePoints(ptsa, tension, isClosed, numOfSegments));
  
  if (showPoints) {
    ctx.beginPath();
    for(var i=0;i<ptsa.length-1;i+=2) 
      ctx.rect(ptsa[i] - 2, ptsa[i+1] - 2, 4, 4);
  }

  ctx.stroke();
}


var myPoints = [10,10, 40,30, 100,10, 200, 100, 200, 50, 250, 120]; //minimum two points
var tension = 1;

drawCurve(ctx, myPoints); //default tension=0.5
drawCurve(ctx, myPoints, tension);


function getCurvePoints(pts, tension, isClosed, numOfSegments) {

  // use input value if provided, or use a default value	 
  tension = (typeof tension != 'undefined') ? tension : 0.5;
  isClosed = isClosed ? isClosed : false;
  numOfSegments = numOfSegments ? numOfSegments : 16;

  var _pts = [], res = [],	// clone array
      x, y,			// our x,y coords
      t1x, t2x, t1y, t2y,	// tension vectors
      c1, c2, c3, c4,		// cardinal points
      st, t, i;		// steps based on num. of segments

  // clone array so we don't change the original
  //
  _pts = pts.slice(0);

  // The algorithm require a previous and next point to the actual point array.
  // Check if we will draw closed or open curve.
  // If closed, copy end points to beginning and first points to end
  // If open, duplicate first points to befinning, end points to end
  if (isClosed) {
    _pts.unshift(pts[pts.length - 1]);
    _pts.unshift(pts[pts.length - 2]);
    _pts.unshift(pts[pts.length - 1]);
    _pts.unshift(pts[pts.length - 2]);
    _pts.push(pts[0]);
    _pts.push(pts[1]);
  }
  else {
    _pts.unshift(pts[1]);	//copy 1. point and insert at beginning
    _pts.unshift(pts[0]);
    _pts.push(pts[pts.length - 2]);	//copy last point and append
    _pts.push(pts[pts.length - 1]);
  }

  // ok, lets start..

  // 1. loop goes through point array
  // 2. loop goes through each segment between the 2 pts + 1e point before and after
  for (i=2; i < (_pts.length - 4); i+=2) {
    for (t=0; t <= numOfSegments; t++) {

      // calc tension vectors
      t1x = (_pts[i+2] - _pts[i-2]) * tension;
      t2x = (_pts[i+4] - _pts[i]) * tension;

      t1y = (_pts[i+3] - _pts[i-1]) * tension;
      t2y = (_pts[i+5] - _pts[i+1]) * tension;

      // calc step
      st = t / numOfSegments;

      // calc cardinals
      c1 =   2 * Math.pow(st, 3) 	- 3 * Math.pow(st, 2) + 1; 
      c2 = -(2 * Math.pow(st, 3)) + 3 * Math.pow(st, 2); 
      c3 = 	   Math.pow(st, 3)	- 2 * Math.pow(st, 2) + st; 
      c4 = 	   Math.pow(st, 3)	- 	  Math.pow(st, 2);

      // calc x and y cords with common control vectors
      x = c1 * _pts[i]	+ c2 * _pts[i+2] + c3 * t1x + c4 * t2x;
      y = c1 * _pts[i+1]	+ c2 * _pts[i+3] + c3 * t1y + c4 * t2y;

      //store points in array
      res.push(x);
      res.push(y);

    }
  }

  return res;
}

function drawLines(ctx, pts) {
  ctx.moveTo(pts[0], pts[1]);
  for(i=2;i<pts.length-1;i+=2) ctx.lineTo(pts[i], pts[i+1]);
}

canvas { border: 1px solid red; }

<canvas id="c"><canvas>

This results in this:

Example pix

You can easily extend the canvas so you can call it like this instead:

ctx.drawCurve(myPoints);

Add the following to the javascript:

if (CanvasRenderingContext2D != 'undefined') {
    CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.drawCurve = 
        function(pts, tension, isClosed, numOfSegments, showPoints) {
       drawCurve(this, pts, tension, isClosed, numOfSegments, showPoints)}
}

You can find a more optimized version of this on NPM (npm i cardinal-spline-js) or on GitLab.

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若你有天会懂

6楼-- · 2019-01-01 02:07

The first answer will not pass through all the points. This graph will exactly pass through all the points and will be a prefect curve with the points as points as [{x:,y:}] n such points.

var points = [{x:1,y:1},{x:2,y:3},{x:3,y:4},{x:4,y:2},{x:5,y:6}] //took 5 example points
ctx.moveTo((points[0].x), points[0].y);

for(var i = 0; i < points.length-1; i ++)
{

  var x_mid = (points[i].x + points[i+1].x) / 2;
  var y_mid = (points[i].y + points[i+1].y) / 2;
  var cp_x1 = (x_mid + points[i].x) / 2;
  var cp_x2 = (x_mid + points[i+1].x) / 2;
  ctx.quadraticCurveTo(cp_x1,points[i].y ,x_mid, y_mid);
  ctx.quadraticCurveTo(cp_x2,points[i+1].y ,points[i+1].x,points[i+1].y);
}

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