# alienkitty/alien.js

👽 MVC design pattern and render pipeline

Repository: https://github.com/alienkitty/alien.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alienjs
Homepage: https://alien.js.org
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-17T02:22:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3408, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1018, forks 57 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:14.944640+00:00)

## What it is
Alien.js is a JavaScript library providing 3D utilities, materials, shaders, and physics helpers for three.js and OGL, alongside an MVC design pattern and render pipeline. It is a sibling library to Space.js, which covers UI components, tweening, and loaders.

## Use cases
- add shader materials and effects to three.js scenes
- add physics to a three.js project with OimoPhysics
- create page and scene transitions in WebGL
- build smooth scroll experiences with camera parallax
- use FXAA anti-aliasing with OGL
- structure a WebGL app with an MVC render pipeline

## When to choose
- you are building a three.js or OGL based creative website and want ready-made materials, shaders, and transitions
- you want a lightweight MVC structure and render pipeline for a WebGL project

## When to avoid
- you need a full general-purpose frontend framework with routing and state management
- your project does not use WebGL, three.js, or OGL

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: graphics, animation, ui-components, sdk
- domain: web-development, frontend, graphics
- platform: browser
- tags: threejs, webgl, shaders, ogl, physics, mvc, render-pipeline, creative-coding, game-development, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- alienkitty/alien.js (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.944640+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:09:27.345050+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alienkitty/alien.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.944640+00:00, sha ce2d961eb908)
  - homepage: https://alien.js.org (fetched 2026-08-29T13:09:52.009283+00:00, sha 19590dc26f35)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.