# joel-simon/ganbreeder

Breed and share images using biggan

Repository: https://github.com/joel-simon/ganbreeder
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ganbreeder
Homepage: https://ganbreeder.app
Language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2023-01-11T01:02:35+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": 2846, "days_push": 1331, "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 1269, forks 229 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:11.603120+00:00)

## What it is
Ganbreeder is a collaborative web application for discovering and 'breeding' images using BigGAN models, where users mix images and share them via URLs. It consists of a Python GAN inference server, a Node.js frontend, and a PostgreSQL database, and is the predecessor to Artbreeder.

## Use cases
- generate and evolve images with biggan
- collaborative generative art breeding
- explore latent space of gan models
- self-host an image breeding web app
- mix two images to create children
- crowdsource image discovery through sharing

## When to choose
- you want to self-host a collaborative GAN image breeding tool
- you want to study how breeding and sharing can explore high-dimensional latent spaces
- you want to run the original code behind Artbreeder

## When to avoid
- you need a polished, documented, production-ready codebase
- you want modern GAN or diffusion models rather than BigGAN-128
- you need a maintained project with active development

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, machine-learning, web-framework, gui
- domain: artificial-intelligence, image-processing, web-development, graphics
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: gan, biggan, collaborative-art, generative-art, image-breeding, creative-tools, artbreeder, nodejs, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- joel-simon/ganbreeder (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.603120+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 2026-08-30T05:03:31.865984+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/joel-simon/ganbreeder (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.603120+00:00, sha 71898b6db2df)
  - homepage: https://ganbreeder.app (fetched 2026-08-29T12:15:12.054838+00:00, sha a3ed5016a5d7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.