Code Examples

In the electromagnetic spectrum illustration and light color, frequency and wavelength post, I needed to calculate color from wavelength value. I tried a few different approaches but finally settled on a modified version of some widely cited FORTRAN code for determining RGB values.

The JavaScript canvas element does not have a native method for drawing ovals (ellipses).

Geometric shapes such as regular polygons are useful building blocks for drawing more complex elements within JavaScript canvas tags. The following block shows 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 sided regular polygons.