RaphaelJS: Graphics and Visualization on the Web

Create beautiful, interactive images on the Web withRaphaëlJS, the JavaScript library that lets you draw Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG) right in the browser. With this concise guide, you’ll quickly learn howto paint the screen with shapes and colors that you can turn into lively,animated graphics and visualizations.

Author Chris Wilson (Time.com) shows you how to create Raphaël objects andmanipulate them with animation, transformations, and other techniques, usingjust a few lines of code. Packed with working examples, sample code, and coolhands-on projects, RaphaëlJS is ideal for new and experienced JavaScriptprogrammers alike.

• Create images that work on browsers new and old, as wellas mobile devices
• Start with the basics—shapes, colors, transformations,sets, and text
• Learn how to build custom curves and shapes with paths
• Code animations that move through space, follow paths, orchange direction
• Make your artwork come alive through user interaction
• Bind a dataset to a collection of visual objects—thebasis of data visualization
• Learn techniques to make your detailed visuals stand outon screens of any size