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Last active Jun 8, 2016

Animated path using canvas
licence: mit

Creating visualizations like this one but using canvas is possible.

The technique is the same as when using it with SVG with the problem that Canvas hasn't got a method to get the whole length of a path. To do it, I've created a hidden SVG first. This other page has a nice explanation about how the SVG path animation work.

The path is the Trans Mongolian train route taken from here but redrawn, since the original is a multi line.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
</style>
<body>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js"></script>
<script>
var width = 700,
height = 500;
var canvas = d3.select("body").append("canvas")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
var context = canvas.node().getContext("2d");
var projection = d3.geo.stereographic()
.scale(900)
.translate([width / 2, height / 2])
.rotate([-90, -60])
.clipAngle(180 - 1e-4)
.clipExtent([[0, 0], [width, height]])
.precision(1);
var path = d3.geo.path()
.projection(projection);
//.context(context);
var graticule = d3.geo.graticule();
d3.json("transsiberian.json", function(error, transsiberian) {
d3.json("world-110m.json", function(error, world) {
var countries = topojson.feature(world, world.objects.countries);
var track = topojson.feature(transsiberian, transsiberian.objects.transsiberian);
var pathEl = d3.select("body").append("svg").append("path").attr("d", path(track));
var length = pathEl.node().getTotalLength();
d3.select("svg").remove;
d3.transition()
.duration(5000)
.ease("linear")
.tween("zoom", function() {
return function(t) {
context.clearRect(0, 0, width, height);
context.strokeStyle = '#aaa';
context.fillStyle = '#ccc';
context.beginPath();
path.context(context)(graticule());
context.lineWidth = 0.2;
context.strokeStyle = 'rgba(30,30,30, 0.5)';
context.stroke();
context.beginPath();
path.context(context)(countries);
context.fill();
context.beginPath();
path.context(context)(countries);
context.stroke();
context.lineWidth = 1;
context.strokeStyle = 'rgba(120,60,60, 1)';
context.setLineDash([length]);
context.lineDashOffset = length*(1-t);
context.beginPath();
path.context(context)(track);
context.stroke();
context.setLineDash([]);
}
});
});
});
d3.select(self.frameElement).style("height", height + "px");
</script>
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GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]
GEOGCS["WGS 84",DATUM["WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]
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