I want to design a creative text image where multiple characters come together to form a word, like "The Matrix", within an animated canvas with a matrix effect. The challenge I'm facing is figuring out how to display the text inside the canvas and then animate it in a way that either blinks or cascades to form the complete word. Below is the code for the canvas setup without the text image:
var c = document.getElementById("c"),
ctx = c.getContext("2d");
c.height = window.innerHeight, c.width = window.innerWidth;
var matrix = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789@#$%^&*()*&^%+-/~{[|`]}";
matrix = matrix.split("");
for (var font_size = 10, columns = c.width / font_size, drops = [], x = 0; x < columns; x++) drops[x] = 1;
function draw() {
ctx.fillStyle = "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08)";
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, c.width, c.height);
ctx.fillStyle = "#0f0";
ctx.font = font_size + "px courier";
for (var t = 0; t < drops.length; t++) {
var i = matrix[Math.floor(Math.random() * matrix.length)];
ctx.fillText(i, t * font_size, drops[t] * font_size);
if (drops[t] * font_size > c.height && Math.random() > .975) {
drops[t] = 0;
}
drops[t]++;
}
}
setInterval(draw, 15);
<div class="width:50%;height:25vh;background:#000;position:relative;">
<canvas id="c" style="width:90%;height:75%;position:absolute;z-index:0;"></canvas>
</div>