PolyShadow is a simple library that paints subtle soft shadows to rectangles and polygons made up of triangles using WebGL shading. The shadows have a solid color Gaussian camouflage.
The shader app is based on mathematical analysis. A closed-form equation is used to calculate the opacity at each pixel which makes this implementation extremely accurate and effective. Curved paths are not and will not be supported.
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How to make use of it:
1. Download and load the polyshadow.js within the doc.
<script type="text/javascript" src="polyshadow.js"></script>
2. Creates a rectangle shadow shader and a rectangle vertex buffer for subsequent draw rectangle.
var rectangleShader = PolyShadow.createRectangleShader(gl);
3. Draws a rectangle shadow (a solid-color blurred rectangle) with the next parameters.
PolyShadow.drawRectangle(gl, rectangleShader, rectangle, transformation, sigma, fillColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0], bgColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0], cutoff = 1.0/512);
4. Deletes a rectangle shader when it’s not needed.
PolyShadow.deleteRectangleShader(gl, rectangleShader);
5. Creates a triangle shadow shader used to draw triangle mesh shadows.
var triangleShader = PolyShadow.createTriangleShader(gl);
6. Creates a drawable triangle mesh. Its particular person triangles should not overlap!
var triangleMesh = PolyShadow.createTriangleMesh(gl, triangles);
7. Draws a triangle mesh shadow (solid-color blurred triangles).
PolyShadow.drawTriangleMesh(gl, triangleShader, triangleMesh, transformation, sigma, fillColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0], bgColor = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0], cutoff = 1.0/512.0);
8. Delete a triangle mesh when it’s not needed.
PolyShadow.deleteTriangleMesh(gl, triangleMesh);
9. Delete a triangle shader when it’s not needed.
PolyShadow.deleteTriangleShader(gl, triangleShader);
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