# Famous Engine

Repository: https://github.com/Famous/engine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/famous-engine
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-10-19T11:29:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4136, "days_push": 1779, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1747, forks 250 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:30.850606+00:00)

## What it is
Famous is a JavaScript rendering and animation engine for building high-performance, GPU-accelerated web interfaces. This repository is deprecated in favor of the successor project at Famous/engine.

## Use cases
- build animated web interfaces with smooth 60fps rendering
- create gpu-accelerated ui transitions in javascript
- render interactive graphics-heavy web apps
- animate dom elements with a physics-based engine

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy codebase already built on Famous
- you want to study the architecture of a javascript rendering engine

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the repo is deprecated and unmaintained
- you need long-term support or an active community
- you want a modern framework with current browser standards support

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: animation, ui-components, frontend-framework, graphics
- domain: web-development, frontend, graphics
- platform: browser
- tags: rendering-engine, deprecated, web-animations, mixed-mode, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- Famous/engine (main) score 32
- Famous/famous (mirror) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.850606+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 2026-08-29T17:47:14.459389+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Famous/engine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.850606+00:00, sha 8e2e22ae02b6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.