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Grayscaling and inverting colors
<!-- Learn about this code on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial/Pixel_manipulation_with_canvas -->
<canvas id="canvas" width="300" height="227"></canvas>
<div>
<input id="grayscalebtn" value="Grayscale" type="button">
<input id="invertbtn" value="Invert" type="button">
</div>
var img = new Image();
img.src = 'https://mdn.mozillademos.org/files/5397/rhino.jpg';
img.onload = function() {
draw(this);
};
function draw(img) {
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
img.style.display = 'none';
var imageData = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
var data = imageData.data;
var invert = function() {
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i += 4) {
data[i] = 255 - data[i]; // red
data[i + 1] = 255 - data[i + 1]; // green
data[i + 2] = 255 - data[i + 2]; // blue
}
ctx.putImageData(imageData, 0, 0);
};
var grayscale = function() {
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i += 4) {
var avg = (data[i] + data[i + 1] + data[i + 2]) / 3;
data[i] = avg; // red
data[i + 1] = avg; // green
data[i + 2] = avg; // blue
}
ctx.putImageData(imageData, 0, 0);
};
var invertbtn = document.getElementById('invertbtn');
invertbtn.addEventListener('click', invert);
var grayscalebtn = document.getElementById('grayscalebtn');
grayscalebtn.addEventListener('click', grayscale);
}
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