#  [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@thi.ng/rasterize)  [](https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi) > [!NOTE] > This is one of 215 standalone projects. LLM-free, human-made and > cared for software, maintained as part of the > [@thi.ng/umbrella](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/) ecosystem and > anti-framework. > > 🚀 Please help me to work full-time on these projects by [sponsoring > me](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md#donations). > Thank you! ❤️ - [About](#about) - [Circle](#circle) - [Line](#line) - [Polygon / polyline](#polygon--polyline) - [Rect](#rect) - [Flood fill](#flood-fill) - [Custom shaders](#custom-shaders) - [Status](#status) - [Related packages](#related-packages) - [Installation](#installation) - [Dependencies](#dependencies) - [Usage examples](#usage-examples) - [API](#api) - [Authors](#authors) - [License](#license) ## About Headless 2D shape drawing, filling & rasterization for arbitrary targets/purposes (no canvas required). The functions in this package can be used with any [`IGrid2D`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/api/interfaces/IGrid2D.html) compatible grid/image type (e.g. those provided by [@thi.ng/pixel](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/pixel) or [@thi.ng/text-canvas](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/text-canvas)). Currently the following functions are available. All of them support [custom shader-like](#custom-shaders) functions to produce "pixel" values. ### Circle - [`drawCircle()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/drawCircle.html): Filled or outline implementation of [Bresenham's circle algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm), with clipping. ### Line - [`drawLine()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/drawLine.html): Implementation of [Bresenham's line algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm) with pre-applied [Liang-Barsky clipping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang%E2%80%93Barsky_algorithm) - [`traceLine()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/traceLine.html): Apply custom functions to trace the line ### Polygon / polyline Filled or outline drawing of polygons (without holes): - [`drawPolyline()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/drawPolyline.html) - [`fillPoly()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/fillPoly.html) ### Rect - [`drawRect()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/drawRect.html): Filled or outline implementation with pre-applied clipping against the target grid. ### Flood fill - [`floodFill()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/floodFill.html): Fills grid in the connected region around `x,y` with given value or shader Also see corresponding function in [@thi.ng/grid-iterators](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/grid-iterators/functions/floodFill.html). ## Custom shaders Conceptually similar, but **not** to be equaled with actual WebGL fragement shaders, many functions in this package support shader-like functions to produce per-pixel fill/color values for each individual pixel processed. These simple functions take an `x` and `y` arg (in grid-space, **not** normalized!) and produce a fill value for that location. A pixel is processed at most once per draw call. The following shader functions are provided: - [`defPattern()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/defPattern.html): pattern fill (must be same format as target grid) - [`defStripes()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/defStripes.html): procedural stripes (configurable) - [`defNoise()`](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/functions/defNoise.html): random noise pattern (configurable) As an example, here's a simple custom UV gradient shader for drawing into a [float RGBA](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/pixel/functions/floatBuffer.html) buffer: ```ts import type { Shader2D } from "@thi.ng/rasterize"; import { floatBuffer } from "@thi.ng/pixel"; import { drawCircle } from "@thi.ng/rasterize"; // custom gradient shader const defUVGradient = (width: number, height: number): Shader2D => (x, y) => [x/width, y/height, 0.5, 1]; const W = 256; // create float RGBA pixel buffer const img = floatBuffer(W, W); // draw filled circle using gradient shader drawCircle(img, W/2, W/2, W/2 - 4, defUVGradient(W, W), true); ```  ## Status **ALPHA** - bleeding edge / work-in-progress [Search or submit any issues for this package](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/issues?q=%5Brasterize%5D) ## Related packages - [@thi.ng/grid-iterators](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/grid-iterators) - 2D grid and shape iterators w/ multiple orderings - [@thi.ng/pixel](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/pixel) - Typedarray integer & float pixel buffers w/ customizable formats, blitting, drawing, convolution - [@thi.ng/text-canvas](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/text-canvas) - Text based canvas, drawing, plotting, tables with arbitrary formatting (incl. ANSI/HTML) ## Installation ```bash yarn add @thi.ng/rasterize ``` ESM import: ```ts import * as ras from "@thi.ng/rasterize"; ``` Browser ESM import: ```html ``` [JSDelivr documentation](https://www.jsdelivr.com/) For Node.js REPL: ```js const ras = await import("@thi.ng/rasterize"); ``` Package sizes (brotli'd, pre-treeshake): ESM: 1.47 KB ## Dependencies - [@thi.ng/api](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/api) - [@thi.ng/checks](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/checks) - [@thi.ng/equiv](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/equiv) - [@thi.ng/grid-iterators](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/grid-iterators) - [@thi.ng/porter-duff](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/porter-duff) - [@thi.ng/random](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/random) - [@thi.ng/transducers](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/packages/transducers) Note: @thi.ng/api is in _most_ cases a type-only import (not used at runtime) ## Usage examples One project in this repo's [/examples](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/examples) directory is using this package: | Screenshot | Description | Live demo | Source | |:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | Steering behavior drawing with alpha-blended shapes | [Demo](https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize-blend/) | [Source](https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/umbrella/src/branch/develop/examples/rasterize-blend) | ## API [Generated API docs](https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/rasterize/) TODO ## Authors - [Karsten Schmidt](https://thi.ng) If this project contributes to an academic publication, please cite it as: ```bibtex @misc{thing-rasterize, title = "@thi.ng/rasterize", author = "Karsten Schmidt", note = "https://thi.ng/rasterize", year = 2021 } ``` ## License © 2021 - 2026 Karsten Schmidt // Apache License 2.0