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<h1 id="awesome-mad-science-awesome">Awesome Mad Science <a
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href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome"><img
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src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg"
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alt="Awesome" /></a></h1>
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<p>Delightful npm packages that make you say “wow, didn’t know that was
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possible!” PRs welcome!</p>
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<h2 id="peer-to-peer">peer-to-peer</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/peerwiki">peerwiki</a> - all
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of wikipedia on bittorrent</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/simple-peer">simple-peer</a>
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- send video/voice/data p2p in the browser (with webrtc)</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/torrent-docker">torrent-docker</a> -
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realtime boot of remote docker images over bittorrent</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/torrent-mount">torrent-mount</a> -
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mount a torrent as a filesystem</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/webtorrent">webtorrent</a> -
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streaming torrent client for node & the browser</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="browserify">browserify</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/brfs">brfs</a> - turn
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<code>fs.readFileSync()</code> calls into inlined static assets</li>
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<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/defunctzombie/4339901">browser
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field spec</a> - replace certain files/modules when a module is bundled
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for the browser</li>
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<li><a href="https://npmjs.org/package/browserify">browserify</a> - use
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<code>require()</code> in the browser</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/stackgl/glslify">glslify</a> - npm
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modules compiled into WebGL shaders</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/webworkify">webworkify</a> -
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composable web workers for browserify</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="files">files</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/file-type">file-type</a> -
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detect file content types by checking their magic numbers</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/fuse4js">fuse4js</a> - write
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filesystem driver in js</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="geometry">geometry</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/alpha-shape">alpha-shape</a>
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- any dimensional alpha shapes (think “concave” hull)</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/box-intersect">box-intersect</a> -
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fast any dimensional box intersection detection</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/convex-hull">convex-hull</a>
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- robust any dimensional convex hull</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/delaunay-triangulate">delaunay-triangulate</a>
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- robust any dimensional delaunay triangulation</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/surface-nets">surface-nets</a> -
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extracts level sets in any dimension</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/voronoi-diagram">voronoi-diagram</a>
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- any dimensional voronoi diagrams</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/voxelize">voxelize</a> -
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voxelize a mesh</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="hardware">hardware</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/cylon">cylon</a> - command
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robots, devices, and more from node</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="images">images</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/indico.io">indico.io</a> -
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facial emotion recognition and facial feature extraction</li>
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<li><a href="https://trackingjs.com/">trackingjs</a> - computer vision
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on the web</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="sound">sound</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/DanielRapp/doppler">doppler</a> - detect
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motion with the doppler effect using only the microphone and
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speakers</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/mattytemple/speak-js">speak.js</a> -
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text-to-speech on the web</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="streams">streams</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/strip-html">strip-html</a> -
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strip html from a stream</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="text">text</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/diff">diff</a> - show text
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differences</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/franc">franc</a> - detect the
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language of text</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/indico.io">indico.io</a> -
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political sentiment analysis</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-tesseract">node-tesseract</a> -
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A simple wrapper for the Tesseract OCR package</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/normit">normit</a> - Google
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translate text & speak it</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/ocrad.js">ocrad.js</a> - OCR
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in Javascript via Emscripten</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/pullquoter">pullquoter</a> -
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pull interesting quotes out of an article</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/sbd">sbd</a> - split text
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into sentences</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/sentiment">sentiment</a> -
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basic sentiment analysis</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="terminal">terminal</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/minimist">minimist</a> -
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simple argument parser</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/progress">progress</a> -
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create a simple terminal progress bar</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/terminal-menu">terminal-menu</a> -
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create retro terminal menus</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/dthree/vantage">vantage.js</a> - CLI +
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SSH + REPL for Node</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/dthree/cash">cash</a> - Cross-platform
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Linux commands in pure ES6</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="virtual-machines">virtual machines</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/fcambus/jsemu">jsemu</a> - A list of
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emulators written in the JavaScript</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/jslinux">jslinux</a> - x86
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emulator for running Linux, written in JavaScript</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-jvm">jvm</a> - java
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virtual machine in pure node.js</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio">doppio</a> -
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actively updated jvm in node.js, written in TypeScript</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="misc">misc</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/bell.js">bell.js</a> -
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real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/bitcoinjs-lib">bitcoinjs-lib</a> -
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bitcoin client for node & the browser</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/fastparallel">fastparallel</a> -
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zero overhead parallel function calls</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-distance">google-distance</a>
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- calculate travel distance between two locations on earth using Google
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Maps’ API</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/qr-image">qr-image</a> -
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generate QR codes</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="meta-programming">meta-programming</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/notevil">notevil</a> -
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javascript javascript interpreter, useful for running untrusted code
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safely.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="mad-scientists-people">mad scientists (people)</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/~mikolalysenko">Mikola Lysenko</a> -
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linear algebra, computational geometry, WebGL</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/~dominictarr">Dominic Tarr</a> -
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streams, distributed systems</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/~tmpvar">Elijah Insua</a> - NC
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machines, CAD/CAM</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/mafintosh">Mathias Buus</a> - torrents
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in node, fuse bindings, data replication</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/feross">Feross Aboukhadijeh</a> -
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webtorrent, bittorrent, p2p hacks</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/maxogden">Max Ogden</a> - streams,
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voxels, data replication</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="license">License</h2>
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<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><img
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src="http://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png"
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alt="CC0" /></a></p>
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<p>To the extent possible under law, <a href="http://feross.org">Feross
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Aboukhadijeh</a> has waived all copyright and related or neighboring
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rights to this work.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/feross/awesome-mad-science">madscience.md
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Github</a></p>
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