AnyChart Open-Sources Powerful, Draw-Anything Graphics Library GraphicsJS

PARK CITY, Utah - Sept. 15, 2016 - PRLog -- AnyChart has today launched GraphicsJS, a free and open-source JavaScript library for easily drawing any HTML5 graphics and animation from scratch. It is lightweight and more powerful in terms of out-of-the-box features than the existing SVG/VML based components on the market including the segment's former leaders, Raphaël and Bonsai.

In particular, GraphicsJS provides powerful line drawing far beyond traditionally offered Bézier curves, rich text features such as multiline wording and text measurement, virtual DOM ensuring rapid and concise drawing, smart layering system with z-index, browser-independent transformation engine, as well as a convenient and efficient API with chaining. Also, GraphicsJS supports legacy browsers (IE6+), which is still in great demand in many countries.

GraphicsJS was developed and previously used as the core graphics engine for AnyChart's commercial charting libraries –AnyChart, AnyMap, AnyStock, and AnyGantt. With that said, it is already employed to operate data visualization for Oracle, Microsoft, Volkswagen, AT&T, Samsung, BP, Bosch, Merck, Reuters, Bank of China, Lockheed Martin, and thousands of other prominent AnyChart's customers including more than 70% of the Fortune 1000 companies.

"Interactive data visualization is just one of numerous potential use cases for the powerful GraphicsJS library. It can be utilized to build absolutely any graphics-related patterns and solutions including stunning, animated pictures, cartoons, infographics, mind maps, and so on and so forth," says Roman Lubushkin, Head of R&D at AnyChart. "Open-sourcing AnyChart's graphics engine is the first step on our way to going fully open-source, aimed at making all of our cutting-edge developments widely available to and contributable by any programmer around the world".

More information on GraphicsJS, including demos, documentations, live playground, and API reference, is available at http://www.graphicsjs.org. The library and all samples can be freely downloaded and forked on GitHub.

About AnyChart

Founded in 2003, AnyChart is one of global leaders in interactive data visualization, offering robust, fast, flexible yet easy-to-use JavaScript (HTML5) charting libraries. JS charts and dashboards, as well as maps, Gantt charts and stock charts powered by AnyChart have been used by Oracle, Microsoft, Volkswagen, AT&T, Samsung, BP, Bosch, Merck, Reuters, Bank of China, Lockheed Martin, and thousands of other prominent corporations including more than 70% of Fortune 1000 companies, to gain better insight into their business, improve enterprise performance and decision making, increase revenue, and serve customers better. All AnyChart's JavaScript charting libraries are cross-browser and cross-platform, bringing the same seamless user experience, numerous chart types and interactive features on all desktop and mobile devices. Website: http://www.anychart.com.