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HTML5 Canvas Animated Heart

Description

Just in time for Valentine's Day -- check out this tutorial, adapted from CodePen, which creates a beautiful, intricate animated heart using only HTML5 canvas.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>

<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Canvas Animated Heart Effect</title>
<style type="text/css">
canvas {
  position: absolute;
  left:0;
  top: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.2);
}
</style>

<body>
	
<canvas id="heart"></canvas>

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
	
  
	
<script>"use strict";var wprRemoveCPCSS=function wprRemoveCPCSS(){var elem;document.querySelector('link[data-rocket-async="style"][rel="preload"]')?setTimeout(wprRemoveCPCSS,200):(elem=document.getElementById("rocket-critical-css"))&&"remove"in elem&&elem.remove()};window.addEventListener?window.addEventListener("load",wprRemoveCPCSS):window.attachEvent&&window.attachEvent("onload",wprRemoveCPCSS);</script><script src="https://www.html5canvastutorials.com/wp-content/cache/min/1/795d378f090461671da3859188cd8b9f.js" data-minify="1"></script><noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT%20Sans%7CLato%3A400%2C700%2C400italic%2C700italic%7COswald%3A400%2C700&display=swap" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.html5canvastutorials.com/wp-content/cache/min/1/53177405dd11d11274238888a830f07b.css" media="all" data-minify="1" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/libraries/codeMirror/lib/codemirror.css"></noscript></body>

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