How to save an HTML5 Canvas as an image on a server?

Question

I\'m working on a generative art project where I would like to allow users to save the resulting images from an algorithm. The general idea is:

• Create an image

Answer 1

I've worked on something similar. Had to convert canvas Base64-encoded image to Uint8Array Blob.

function b64ToUint8Array(b64Image) {
   var img = atob(b64Image.split(',')[1]);
   var img_buffer = [];
   var i = 0;
   while (i < img.length) {
      img_buffer.push(img.charCodeAt(i));
      i++;
   }
   return new Uint8Array(img_buffer);
}

var b64Image = canvas.toDataURL('image/jpeg');
var u8Image  = b64ToUint8Array(b64Image);

var formData = new FormData();
formData.append("image", new Blob([ u8Image ], {type: "image/jpg"}));

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "/api/upload", true);
xhr.send(formData);