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How to scale small ImageData to large HTML canvas


I am trying to put image data 100x100 to canvas 1000x1000 , but cant able to do it ,

let width=1000;      //canvas width
let height=1000;    //canvas height
let img_w=100;      //image width
let img_h=100;      //image height
let img=new Image();
img.width=img_w
img.height=img_h
img.src="./flower.jpg"
var canvas = document.getElementById('mycanvas');
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
canvas.width = width;
canvas.height = height;
let pixels,scannedimg;
img.onload=()=>{
context.drawImage(img, 0, 0,width,height );
scannedimg = context.getImageData(0, 0, img.width, img.height);
pixels=scannedimg.data
console.log(pixels)
redraw();
}

let row=4*img_w;
let col=img_h;

function redraw(){
    for(let i=0;i<row;i+=4){
        for(let j=0;j<col;j++){
            pixels[i+j*row]=0;
            pixels[i+j*row+1]=0;
            pixels[i+j*row+2]=0;
            //pixels[i+j*400+3]=0;
        }
    }
   scannedimg.data=pixels;
    console.log(scannedimg);
    context.putImageData(scannedimg,0,0,0,0,width,height);
}

i have converted the original array into a black image array (array of zeros) , but while putting on canvas , it is still 100x100 How to scale it to 1000x1000? i don't want to iterate through 1000x1000 and set it to zero , i need a computationally efficient answer


Solution

  • Unless you outsource the pixel calculations to a WebAssembly module a JavaScript-only approach would indeed be rather slow for a large image.

    Honestly I'm not sure what you are actually doing in your code.

    First your drawing an unknown-sized .jpg to a 1000x1000 canvas which - unless the .jpg is also 1000x1000 - will scale and eventually distort the source image.

    let width=1000;
    let height=1000; 
    context.drawImage(img, 0, 0, width, height);
    

    Secondly you're obtaining the pixel data of a 100x100 region from the top-left of your 1000x1000 canvas.

    let img_w=100;
    let img_h=100;
    img.width=img_w;
    img.height=img_h;
    scannedimg = context.getImageData(0, 0, img.width, img.height);
    

    Finally in your redraw() function you're rather randomly setting some of the pixels to black and draw it back to the canvas at 1000x1000 (which doesn't work that way but I will get into it later).

    Let's do it a little different. Say we have a 300x200 image. First we need to draw it to a 100x100 canvas while maintaining it's aspect ratio to get the 100x100 imagedata. This can be done using a dynamically created off-screen <canvas> element as we don't need to see it.

    Now the tricky part is the CanvasRenderingContext2D putImageData() method. I assume you were thinking that the last pair of parameters for the width & height would stretch existing pixel data to fill the region specifid by (x, y, width, height). Well that's not the case. Instead we need to - again - paint the 100x100 pixel data to a same-sized off-screen canvas (or for simlicity re-use the existing) and draw it to the final canvas using the drawImage() method.

    Here's everything put together:

    let pixelsWidth = 100;
    let pixelsHeight = 100;
    let finalWidth = 500;
    let finalHeight = 500;
    let tempCanvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    let tempContext = tempCanvas.getContext('2d');
    tempCanvas.width = pixelsWidth;
    tempCanvas.height = pixelsHeight;
    let pixelData;
    let img = new Image();
    img.crossOrigin = 'anonymous';
    img.onload = (e) => {
      let scale = e.target.naturalWidth >= e.target.naturalHeight ? pixelsWidth / e.target.naturalWidth : pixelsHeight / e.target.naturalHeight;
      let tempWidth = e.target.naturalWidth * scale;
      let tempHeight = e.target.naturalHeight * scale;
      tempContext.drawImage(e.target, pixelsWidth / 2 - tempWidth / 2, pixelsHeight / 2 - tempHeight / 2, tempWidth, tempHeight);
      pixelData = tempContext.getImageData(0, 0, pixelsWidth, pixelsHeight);
      redraw();
    }
    img.src = 'https://picsum.photos/id/237/300/200';
    
    function redraw() {
      let canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
      let context = canvas.getContext('2d');
      canvas.width = finalWidth;
      canvas.height = finalHeight;
      tempContext.putImageData(pixelData, 0, 0);
      context.drawImage(tempCanvas, 0, 0, finalWidth, finalHeight);
    }
    canvas {
      background: #cccccc;
    }
    <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>