Creating the Motion Trail

The task ahead of us is pretty straightforward - especially given what we looked at in the previous section. What we are going to do now is take an object that moves around the canvas and give it a motion trail. You can create your own starting point for this, but if you want to closely follow along, continue with our usual example where we have a canvas element with an id of myCanvas. Inside that HTML document, add the following into the script tag: