Project Overview
Most projects die quietly. After the hackathon ends, the internship finishes, or the learning goal is met, code is abandoned. Code Afterlife turns that reality into a cinematic, emotional experience. It maps the lifecycle of GitHub repositories, placing dead projects in an infinite, procedural 3D graveyard. But it is not just a visualizer. Powered by Groq AI and a strict state machine, it allows users to 'resurrect' abandoned code, auto-forking it to their own accounts and passing down 'wills' left by original developers to keep the open-source spirit alive.
Core Capabilities
Procedural 3DAn infinite, procedural Three.js graveyard utilizing a treadmill loop and volumetric fog to render 12,000+ instanced meshes at 60fps.
State MachineA strict state machine driven by a 0-100 health algorithm that calculates repository momentum, consistency, and activity to transition projects from Active to Dead.
AI PulseStaggered cron jobs trigger Groq's Llama 4 Scout AI to synthesize raw GitHub commit histories into poetic, 30-word cinematic timelines without hitting API limits.
Auto-ForkingA GitHub API integration that allows users to resurrect dead projects, mapping their descendants into intricate family trees using an interactive React Flow canvas.
Trending GravityA time-decay trending algorithm for community voting, paired with an IntersectionObserver pipeline for instantaneous, DOM-friendly client-side pagination.
GSAP ChoreographyCinematic scroll sequences and vault animations built with GSAP and Framer Motion, offloading heavy physics to CSS for near-zero JavaScript execution cost.