city

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<body>
  <canvas id="canvas" width="960" height="500"></canvas>
</body>

<script>
  /*

Basically playing around with a couple of graphics things with the canvas:
  - manually drawing cubes
    - but mostly faking them :P, they're all missing backs and bottoms
  - manually translating a 3d space to a 2d space, using classical perspective stuff
  - auto generating cubes, creating a "city" with blocks and streets and things

var color_right = "#888";
  var color_left = "#888";
  var color_front = "#AAA";
  var color_top = "#CCC";
  var color_road = "#666";

var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
  var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");

// *0.8 : so that the buildings don't fall off the bottom of the canvas
  var canvasHeight = canvas.height * 0.9;
  var canvasWidth = canvas.width;

// x and z are the physical coordinates of the terminusPoint
  // adjusting y effectively adjusts the "height/angle" of the viewer
  var terminusPoint = {
    x: canvasWidth / 2.0,
    z: 800,
    y: 190 /* this is of the visual canvas, not the physical point in space */
  };

// translate to 3d
  // z = 0 is "close", z = 100 is "far"
  // width is x size, depth is z size
  // basically calculate the front and the back sides, then connect all the dotes
  // assume that the x/z coordinates define the bottomLeftFront corner
  var drawBuilding = function(x, z, width, depth, height) {
    ctx.strokeStyle = "black";

var zModFront = (terminusPoint.z - z)/terminusPoint.z;

var pixelHeightFront = zModFront * height;
    var pixelWidthFront = zModFront * width;

var zModBack = (terminusPoint.z - z - depth)/terminusPoint.z;
    var pixelHeightBack = zModBack * height;
    var pixelWidthBack = zModBack * width;

// right side
    drawPolygon([topRightFront, topRightBack, bottomRightBack, bottomRightFront], color_right);
    // left side
    drawPolygon([topLeftFront, topLeftBack, bottomLeftBack, bottomLeftFront], color_left);
    // "top of building"
    drawPolygon([topLeftFront, topLeftBack, topRightBack, topRightFront], color_top);
    // "front of building"
    drawPolygon([topLeftFront, topRightFront, bottomRightFront, bottomLeftFront], color_front);
  };

// points must be in consecutive order of drawing
  var drawPolygon = function(points, fill_color) {
    ctx.beginPath();
    ctx.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
    for(var i=1; i<points.length; i++) {
      ctx.lineTo(points[i].x, points[i].y);
    }

// close the shape
    ctx.lineTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
    ctx.closePath();
    ctx.stroke();
    ctx.fillStyle = fill_color;
    ctx.fill();
  }

// return an array of buildings
  var generateCity = function() {
    var cityArray = [];
    var plotSize = 60;
    var streetSize = 25;
    var buildingSize = plotSize - streetSize;
    for(var j=0; j < parseInt((terminusPoint.z - plotSize)/plotSize); j++) {
      for(var i = 0; i<parseInt(canvasWidth/plotSize); i++) {
        var randHeight = Math.random()*90 + 10;

if(Math.random() > 0.95) { randHeight += 70; }
        if(Math.random() > 0.97) { randHeight += 170; }

// to make buildings go into blocks of 2x2
        var xBlockModifier = 0;
        var yBlockModifier = 0;
        if(i % 2 == 0) { xBlockModifier += streetSize; }
        if(j % 2 == 0) { yBlockModifier = streetSize; }

cityArray.push({
          x: i*plotSize + xBlockModifier, z: j*plotSize + yBlockModifier, w: buildingSize, d: buildingSize, h: randHeight
        });
      }
    }
    return cityArray;
  };

var buildings = generateCity();

var sortBuildings = function(arrayToSort) {
    var arrayToReturn = [];

for(var i=0; i < arrayToSort.length; i++) {
      var currItem = arrayToSort[i];
      var destIdx = arrayToReturn.length;
      for(var j=0; j < arrayToReturn.length; j++) {
        var compItem = arrayToReturn[j];
        if((currItem.z > compItem.z) ||
           (Math.abs(currItem.x - canvasWidth / 2.0) > Math.abs(compItem.x - canvasWidth / 2.0) && currItem.z == compItem.z)) {
          destIdx = j;
          break;
        }
      }
      arrayToReturn = arrayToReturn.slice(0,destIdx).concat([currItem]).concat(arrayToReturn.slice(destIdx,arrayToReturn.length))
    }

return arrayToReturn;
  };

var sorted_buildings = sortBuildings(buildings);

// first draw the roads
  ctx.strokeStyle = "grey";
  var bottomSceneLeft = {
    x: 38,
    y: canvasHeight - 9
  };
  var topSceneLeft = {
    x: terminusPoint.x - 50,
    y: terminusPoint.y + 30
  };
  var topSceneRight = {
    x: terminusPoint.x + 50,
    y: terminusPoint.y + 30
  };
  var bottomSceneRight = {
    x: canvasWidth - 38,
    y: canvasHeight - 9
  };
  drawPolygon([bottomSceneLeft, topSceneLeft, topSceneRight, bottomSceneRight], color_road);

for(var i=0; i<sorted_buildings.length; i++) {
    var b = sorted_buildings[i];
    drawBuilding(b.x, b.z, b.w, b.d, b.h);
  }
</script>