How to get a rotated crop of an image with HTML canvas

I have a large canvas containing an image, as shown in the example below:

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I have the position and rotation angle of the red rectangle:

red : {
  top : top,
  left : left,
  width : width,
  height : height,
  angle : angle
}

I also have a full set of translated coordinates denoting the actual corner points of the red rotated rectangle.

Finally, I have the position of the blue rectangle relative to the red rectangle:

blue : {
  left : left,
  top : top,
  width : width,
  height : height
}

What I need to do is create a new canvas that is the size of the blue rectangle. The new canvas should contain the correctly rotated portion of the image that is contained within the blue rectangle. The resulting image should look like this:

enter image description here

Here is my JavaScript code so far:

var c = getCenterPoint(); // returns center x/y positions of the RED rectangle
canvas.width = blue.width;
canvas.height = blue.height;
var blueX = red.left + blue.left;
var blueY = red.top + blue.top;
var tx = blueX - c.x;
var ty = blueY - c.y;

this.cursorContext.translate(tx, ty);
this.cursorContext.rotate(angle * (Math.PI / 180));
this.cursorContext.translate(-tx, -ty);

this.cursorContext.drawImage(image, -blueX, -blueY, blue.width, blue.height);

The problem I am having is getting the correct portion of the image when the rectangle is rotated. How can I do this?

Solution

You can use a temporary canvas to clip and unrotate your blue box

Clip the boundingbox of the blue rectangle from the image
Unrotate the boundingbox so the blue rectangle is unrotated (angle==0)
Clip the extra boundingbox area away to reveal only the blue rectangle
Draw the blue rectangle to the display canvas

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Here’s code and a Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/m1erickson/28EkG/

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="css/reset.css" /> <!-- reset css -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>

<style>
    body{ background-color: ivory; }
    canvas{border:1px solid red;}
</style>

<script>
$(function(){

    var canvas=document.getElementById("canvas");
    var ctx=canvas.getContext("2d");

    // blue rect's info

    var blueX=421;
    var blueY=343;
    var blueWidth=81;
    var blueHeight=44;
    var blueAngle=-25.00*Math.PI/180;

    // load the image

    var img=new Image();
    img.onload=start;
    img.src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/139992952/stackoverflow/temp6.jpg";

    function start(){

        // create 2 temporary canvases

        var canvas1=document.createElement("canvas");
        var ctx1=canvas1.getContext("2d");
        var canvas2=document.createElement("canvas");
        var ctx2=canvas2.getContext("2d");

        // get the boundingbox of the rotated blue box

        var rectBB=getRotatedRectBB(blueX,blueY,blueWidth,blueHeight,blueAngle);

        // clip the boundingbox of the rotated blue rect
        // to a temporary canvas

        canvas1.width=canvas2.width=rectBB.width;
        canvas1.height=canvas2.height=rectBB.height;

        ctx1.drawImage(img,
            rectBB.cx-rectBB.width/2,
            rectBB.cy-rectBB.height/2,
            rectBB.width,
            rectBB.height,
            0,0,rectBB.width,rectBB.height
        );

        // unrotate the blue rect on the temporary canvas

        ctx2.translate(canvas1.width/2,canvas1.height/2);
        ctx2.rotate(-blueAngle);
        ctx2.drawImage(canvas1,-canvas1.width/2,-canvas1.height/2);

        // draw the blue rect to the display canvas

        var offX=rectBB.width/2-blueWidth/2;
        var offY=rectBB.height/2-blueHeight/2;

        canvas.width=blueWidth;
        canvas.height=blueHeight;
        ctx.drawImage(canvas2,-offX,-offY);

    }  // end start



    // Utility: get bounding box of rotated rectangle

    function getRotatedRectBB(x,y,width,height,rAngle){
        var absCos=Math.abs(Math.cos(rAngle));
        var absSin=Math.abs(Math.sin(rAngle));
        var cx=x+width/2*Math.cos(rAngle)-height/2*Math.sin(rAngle);
        var cy=y+width/2*Math.sin(rAngle)+height/2*Math.cos(rAngle); 
        var w=width*absCos+height*absSin;
        var h=width*absSin+height*absCos;
        return({cx:cx,cy:cy,width:w,height:h});
    }


}); // end $(function(){});
</script>

</head>

<body>
    <canvas id="canvas" width=300 height=300></canvas>
</body>
</html>