Color Cycling Effects with HTML5

Color cycling

Color cycling (or palette shifting) is a technology often used in computer graphics from the 90s in which colors are changed in order to give the effects of animation. This technique was mainly used in early computer games, as storing one image and changing its palette took virtually no memory and processor power whereas storing the animation in several frames required much more memory processing.

Most games used the technique to animate water, fire or other environmental effects. Unfortunately the art of color cycling died out in the late 90s as it looks terrible. This demo by Mark Ferrari is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time. It can run well on Safari 5+, Chrome 5+, Firefox 3.5+, Opera 10.6+, iPhone with iOS 4+, iPad with iOS 3.2+.

Color Cycling

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  1. TnTonly says:

    What do u think about the future of HTML5? Can it replace Flash?

    • Tek3D says:

      Absolutely, I guess Flash will die out in the next 4 years :D At this moment, Flash is still be the best solution for streaming audio and video, however since HTML 5 supported media tags and Youtube launch HTML5 version, we can see that it will soon be replaced. There are some limits of Flash such as it is without open standards, run as third-party software and spends too much memory.

  2. Tech Maish says:

    TnTony Yes HTML5 is going to replace Flash.
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  3. I’m waiting for all brower support html5. because html5 its very good
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    • Tek3D says:

      Yeah, HTML5 is excellent and will be the future of websites. Why do you have to wait, almost every popular browser supports HTML5 now.

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