HTML5-based algorithm animation online platform

A novel visualized algorithm animation online platform was developed on HTML 5 which included development library, online editor with website. The development library contained animation drawing and generation modules. The drawing module offered a library for animation elements and effects based on HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript, and the generation one further packaged it into framework and functions with the animation storage and update. A timeline-based scheme for script sequence definition, storage and snapshot generation was proposed. On the basis of work above, a teaching website was implemented, which provided an online algorithm-animation editor, comments and sharing. This platform has been applied in several course teaching.