title: How to draw a half transparent circle with gleaming effect using radial gradient in html5 canvas?
body: <p>I want to make something like this in HTML5 canvas: The circle has gleaming light and its shadow spreads out to the far edge of the circle. You can see that in the image although it is blurry it still has a very clear line between the blurry shadow and the circle. And the circle is transparent so you can see it through.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JojLL.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JojLL.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>But I want to avoid using shadowBlur. What I have tried is to use radial gradient. But I get the effect below. Although I have tried tweaking with different numbers I am not able to to make a similar circle like the image shows. </p>
  
  <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" data-babel="false">
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>draw(document.getElementById('canvas').getContext('2d'));
      
  function draw(ctx) {
        
  
    var radgrad = ctx.createRadialGradient(90,90,0,90,90,90);
    radgrad.addColorStop(0, 'rgba(255,0,0,0.4)');
    radgrad.addColorStop(0.25, 'rgba(228,0,0,.23)');
    radgrad.addColorStop(1, 'rgba(228,0,0,0)');
    
    // draw shape
    ctx.fillStyle = radgrad;
    ctx.fillRect(0,0,190,190);
    ctx.arc(90, 90, 15, 0, Math.PI * 2);
    ctx.fill();
      }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;canvas id="canvas" height="300" width="300"&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>Any suggestion will be appreciated.</p>