Rivers of Illinois. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Visualization of a complex dynamical system defined by a degree-3 Blaschke product, rendered as a 2D image using a #GLSL #shader in #p5.js, then extruded into 3D using the #rstats package #rayshader. #MathArt #Fractals #HermanRings #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding

Latest version, now shade and sun through the day of January 1, Cipriano Hills, Organ Pipe Cactus NM. View toward the southwest. Uses #rayshader, #rayrender, and #skymodelr. A little jumpiness shorter timesteps might fix. I really like the fine detail of the topography, though.

Land cover of El Salvador. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Now THAT’S a map

Light on some hills in southern Arizona at 8AM on New Years Day (view toward the southwest). Light modeled and visualized using #rayshader, #rayrender, and #skymodelr. We camped on top of one of these around New Years in the early 1970s, and I remember the morning light.

Rivers and lakes of the Netherlands. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

New Capital Weather [Gang] page is live! Welcome! www.capitalweather.com/welcome/ Wishing you all a safe parting from WaPo

Also an excellent package for some generative art experiments in #RStats 🎨 #Rtistry

ggcube で かいてみました。 gist.github.com/ito4303/2905...

Land cover of Serbia. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

Is the RStudio download page down for anyone else? posit.co/download/rst... #RStats

Land cover of Thailand. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

June 28th, 2017. The day I turned off notifications from the New York Times after my watch buzzed and I got this very important alert.

Land cover of Romania. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Rivers of Australia. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Land cover of the conterminous United States of America. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

They're too small to see in that thumbnail, but in the full size version you get a lovely star field 😊 @tylermw.com has thought of everything with this package 🥳

Using #RStats to make dynamic wallpapers! Awesome creative use-case @jamesgoldie.dev!

Rivers of Michigan. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Slick!

Thanks to feedback, here's rivers and subbasins of the Great Lakes, take two. I'd mistakenly excluded Canadian lakes in my earlier render. Also took the opportunity to add more rivers. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Trying something different with a land cover map of Vietnam. What do you think? #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Rivers and subbasins of the Great Lakes. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Today's land cover map is Bangladesh. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Rivers of France. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

I can’t emphasize how much I like the legend that also tells you the proportion of the whole the variable represents! It’s quite difficult to parse proportions with such a disconnected set, so this is a clever way of including it in a figure.

Rivers of Iberia. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A 3D sunflower using the #rstats package #rayshader #SciArt #MathArt

Land cover of Egypt. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Land cover of South Korea. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Async R gets a proper memory model. mirai 2.7.0 and mori 0.2.0 on CRAN: - byte-level dispatcher queue cap: `daemons(memory = ...)` - non-blocking submit on a full queue: `try_mirai()` - mori out of experimental – zero-copy shared memory across processes opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... #rstats

Follow-up for anyone who saw this one. Hadley reached out, we had a conversation with the engineer, attribution is fixed, and the ecosystem ends up with maintained portable builds. Posting the wrap-up so the resolution travels with the original. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/closin...

Freshwater major habitat types of Thailand. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A 3D red carnation using the #rstats package #rayshader Every year on April 25th, 🇵🇹Portugal celebrates the Carnation Revolution, which ended 48 years of dictatorship in the country. #Portugal #dataviz #rayshader #MathArt

And other one with rivers of Germany. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Back to the United States with rivers of New Jersey. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A red rose for mother's day. Credits to @tylermw.com for #rayshader #rstats package and to @aschinchon #SciArt #MathArt

Land cover of Sri Lanka. The last time I did anything related to land cover was *checks history* almost three years ago. And I remember why: I spend way too much time on colours, just to end back up with the original palette. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

it’s coming for math too. Reminder: Gowers is a Fields medalist gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...

Heading outside the United States with rivers of India. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Rivers of Rhode Island. No labels but should there be? #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

I felt a strange burning sensation over my entire body when I entered this building

Divorce, by occupations: flowingdata.com/2026/05/07/d... Actuaries, professional estimators of risk and very on brand, are the outlier with the lowest rate.

Central Philly is supposedly easy to remember because it's"trees in order of how hard their wood is" (Chestnut - Walnut - Locust - Spruce - Pine) very helpful thank you

Rivers of Texas two ways, one with labels, one without. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

I tried to recreate in #rstats the tiles that cover the facade of my grandparents` house. After many attempts, I arrived at the following 2D and 3D results (not at all similar to the original, by the way) #rayshader #math #SciArt #MathArt

ggplot(ritual) + geom_sf() + theme_c̵̤͛̌̎̀͘t̶̡̨̯̝̼͗̂͒͊̀̾̇̾͜h̸̡̰͉̼̖͉̉u̶̡̗̮̜͍̠̯̙̍l̸̞̲̓̒̒̓̓̃̔h̶̛̖̣̲̩̖͉̠͍̬̄̔̊̽͜u̸̱͛̈̽̀̅() + coord_noneuclidean() #RStats #rayshader #rayrender

The topography of race and income in New York City. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale