I want to animate a progressive drawing of a line using only css with svg/canvas and js maximum. An idea of the line I want to draw can be found here
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<title>Layer 1</title>
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So there's this similar question with this answer.
I took your path and put it into the code in that answer.
jsfiddle demo
Html:
Javascript ( Note that Jquery 1.8.3 and Raphael 1.5.2 was used in the example ):
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] attribute and put it inside thepathString
variable.stroke-width
]I've only played around with raphael quite briefly once, but checking the examples and looking at how the code is constructed (
from page source
) gets you quite far ( I couldn't remember how/where to put thestroke-width
, so I checked the method from the page source of this example. ).You can find raphael + more info from here.
Just for fun, I made my own path...
I did something similar last year to animate a drawing in canvas. The paths are all SVG-type paths with curves and lines, so you could take those straight out of your SVG file and put them into the Javascript array.
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/coding/javascript/Animated+Glowing+Line+Drawing+in+Canvas
There are three techniques listed in this answer:
There is an all-SVG solution that involves progressively modifying the
stroke-dasharray
for the shape to draw a longer and longer 'dash' followed by an enormous gap.Demo: http://phrogz.net/svg/progressively-drawing-svg-path-via-dasharray.html
Relevant code:
Alternatively, you can still use all SVG and choose to build the SVG path one command at a time:
Demo: http://phrogz.net/svg/progressively-cloning-svg-path.html
Relevant code:
Finally, you may choose to draw your path to an HTML5 canvas by sampling the SVG path periodically and drawing to the canvas. (Note that the SVG path does not need to be displayed for this to happen; you can build an SVG path element entirely in JavaScript and sample it):
Demo: http://phrogz.net/svg/progressively-drawing-svg-path.html
Relevant code:
Using Phrogz excellent technique I created a very basic GreenSock animation using TweenLite to tween the length value to getTotalLength() value.
As you can see in the demo, hooking this into a tween engine gives you tons of control and it involves very little code.
Much respect to Phrogz for the awesome idea and code.
http://codepen.io/GreenSock/pen/zLiux