API

Options

Passed to the Sketch.create method.

• fullscreen Default: true
• autostart Default: true Otherwise call start()
• autoclear Default: true Whether to clear the context before each call to draw. Otherwise call clear()
• container Default: document.body Where to put the sketch context
• type Default Sketch.CANVAS Possible values: Sketch.CANVAS, Sketch.WEB_GL and Sketch.DOM

Class Methods

• create Creates and returns a new sketch. Arguments: options Optional hash including any number of the above options

Instance Methods

• start
• stop
• clear

Overridable Instance Methods

Implement these methods on your sketch instance (or pass them to create inside the options hash).

• setup
• update
• draw
• touchstart
• touchmove
• touchend
• mouseover
• mousedown
• mousemove
• mouseout
• mouseup
• click
• keydown
• keyup
• resize

Instance Properties

• mouse Contains x, y, ox, oy, dy and dy, representing the mouse or primary touch.
• touches List of current touches with same structure as mouse. On the desktop, the 0th element represents the mouse.
• dragging Whether the mouse is down / the user is dragging
• width Current viewport width
• height Current viewport height
• keys A hash of booleans indicating whether each key is currently pressed, e.g sketch.keys.SPACE
• millis The total runtime of the sketch in milliseconds
• now The current time in milliseconds
• dt The delta time between the current and previous frame in milliseconds

Constants

• CANVAS Enumeration for the Canvas type
• WEB_GL Enumeration for the WebGL type
• DOM Enumeration for the DOM type

Global Properties

These are safely mixed into the window object for quick access, e.g: sin( random( TWO_PI ) )

Methods

• random Accepts single values, ranges and Arrays, e.g: random( 10, 20 ) or random( colours )

Math Constants

• PI
• TWO_PI
• HALF_PI
• QUATER_PI

Math functions

• sin
• cos
• tan
• pow
• exp
• min
• max
• sqrt
• atan
• atan2
• ceil
• round
• floor