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I am trying to retrieve the pixels of a canvas on which filters have been applied.

On this example below, I apply a filter on mycanvas1, draw an image on it and then draw that canvas on another canvas mycanvas2:

async function loadImageFromBase64(base64) {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    const image = new Image();
    image.onload = () => resolve(image);
    image.src = base64;
  });
}

async function main() {
  const image = await(loadImageFromBase64(imageBase64));
  const mycanvas1 = document.getElementById('mycanvas1');
  const myctx1 = mycanvas1.getContext('2d');
  const mycanvas2 = document.getElementById('mycanvas2');
  const myctx2 = mycanvas2.getContext('2d');
  
  myctx1.drawImage(image, 0, 0);
  myctx2.drawImage(mycanvas1, 0, 0);
}

window.onload = main;

const imageBase64 = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
	 width="128px" height="128px" viewBox="0 0 128 128" style="enable-background:new 0 0 128 128;" xml:space="preserve">
<g>
	<circle style="fill:#88C5CC;" cx="64" cy="64" r="64"/>
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</svg>
';
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>My Filter</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <style>
    #mycanvas1 {
      filter: url(#myfilter);
      border: 3px solid blue;
    }

    #mycanvas2 {
      border: 3px solid red;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <canvas id="mycanvas1"></canvas>
  <canvas id="mycanvas2"></canvas>

  <svg>
    <filter id="myfilter" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%">
      <feColorMatrix type="luminanceToAlpha"/>
    </filter>
  </svg></body>
</html>

But the filter, it seems, are not applied on the canvas pixels. They are post-processed, that is why the second canvas contains the image without the filter. Is there any way to retrieve the pixels of the canvas with the filter applied?

I need this because I need to perform some operation ex-post of the filter in javascript.

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  • You may have to manually apply the luminanceToAlpha to your canvas pixels. Easy enough: w3.org/TR/SVG11/filters.html#feColorMatrixElement Commented Mar 25, 2020 at 19:30
  • As explained in the question, I need to retrieve the pixels to perform further post-treatment on them through javascript. So this is not an option. Commented Mar 26, 2020 at 9:09
  • One partial solution is the use of OffscreenCanvas. However, they work, by default, only on Chrome (and Firefox with some options activated) and they do not handle url filters, only shorthand filters. Commented Mar 26, 2020 at 9:11
  • I meant that you may have to apply the equivalent of a luminanceToAlpha filter to the Canvas pixels using JavaScript in order to have a usable dataset for further processing. I was linking to the spec in order for you to be able to see what the math is for that. Commented Mar 27, 2020 at 3:36

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