Copying a canvas element (v7)

Revision 7 of this benchmark created on


Preparation HTML

<h1>Source Canvas</h1>
<canvas id="source"></canvas>
<h1>Destination Canvas</h1>
<canvas id="destination"></canvas>

Setup

var sourceImage, ctx, sourceCanvas, destinationCanvas;
  
  //get the canvases
  sourceCanvas = document.getElementById('source');
  destinationCanvas = document.getElementById('destination');
  
  //get the google logo
  sourceImage = new Image();
  
  sourceImage.src = 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 
  //make sure the canvases are the same size as the source image.
  sourceCanvas.width = sourceImage.width;
  sourceCanvas.height = sourceImage.height;
  destinationCanvas.width = sourceImage.width;
  destinationCanvas.height = sourceImage.height;
  
  //draw the source image to the source canvas
  ctx = sourceCanvas.getContext('2d');
  ctx.drawImage(sourceImage, 0, 0, sourceImage.width, sourceImage.height);

Teardown



            sourceCanvas.width = sourceCanvas.width;
  destinationCanvas.width = destinationCanvas.width;
        
  

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Method 1 - Copy via imageData
var sourceCtx, destinationCtx, imageData;

//get the context of each canvas
sourceCtx = sourceCanvas.getContext('2d');
destinationCtx = destinationCanvas.getContext('2d');

//copy the data
imageData = sourceCtx.getImageData(0, 0, sourceCanvas.width,sourceCanvas.height);

//apply the image data
destinationCtx.putImageData(imageData, 0, 0);

//done
ready
Method 2 - Copy via Base64 data
var image, destinationCtx;

//create the image
image = new Image();

//get the base64 data
image.src = sourceCanvas.toDataURL('image/png');

//get the destination context
destinationCtx = destinationCanvas.getContext('2d');

//copy the data
destinationCtx.drawImage(image, 0, 0);

//done
ready
Method 3 - Copy via direct draw
var destinationCtx;

//get the destination context
destinationCtx = destinationCanvas.getContext('2d');

//draw the image
destinationCtx.drawImage(sourceCanvas, 0, 0);

//done
ready

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