# gmattie/Data-Pixels

Create pixel art programmatically.  Includes DataPixels.js and Data Pixels Playground desktop application.

Repository: https://github.com/gmattie/Data-Pixels
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/data-pixels
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-12-23T16:04:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3396, "days_push": 1714, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3456, forks 128 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:05.518815+00:00)

## What it is
DataPixels.js is a JavaScript library for generating pixel art programmatically at runtime from RGB/RGBA data arrays, producing HTMLCanvasElement and HTMLImageElement outputs. It ships with Data Pixels Playground, a cross-platform desktop application for writing, executing, and previewing pixel art code, including parsing pixel data from image files.

## Use cases
- generate pixel art programmatically in javascript
- create sprites from color data arrays
- build pixel art images on html canvas
- convert image files into pixel art data
- experiment with pixel art in a desktop playground
- generate game sprite art at runtime

## When to avoid
- you need general-purpose image editing or photo manipulation
- you require a maintained project with active development or a GitHub license file
- you need high-resolution or non-pixel art graphics generation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, graphics, gui
- domain: graphics, cross-platform
- platform: cross-platform, windows
- tags: pixel-art, canvas, image-generation, creative-coding, desktop-app, electron, game-development, nodejs, javascript, desktop, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- gmattie/Data-Pixels (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:05.518815+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 2026-08-29T18:37:30.005602+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gmattie/Data-Pixels (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:05.518815+00:00, sha 4dd8be23d16c)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/data-pixels (fetched 2026-08-29T09:31:20.446730+00:00, sha 1c22d88cf0d1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.