JavaScript Creativity

CHAPTER 6

The Music Player

So far, we have taken a brief tour through the winding roads of sound and graphics. We started with canvas and explored the world of 2D and animations; from there we crossed into looking at the video and audio html elements and web audio API from which we used canvas for visualizing music by creating tools such as spectrograms. It was then back into graphics to dive head first into 3D worlds where we played with types of lighting and materials to learn how things affect one another. Chapter 5 seemingly dropped the graphics altogether (except from using SVGs of course) and focused purely on music, generating notes through ...