Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

Gaussian Peak Performance (With rayshader's new raypeople featuring the "Rocky" pose and the "Stretch" pose: 11 poses, it's like playing with army men!) #RStats #rayshader #rayrender

The raypeople are coming. #RStats #rayshader #rayrender

We're excited to share bluffbench2, a next-generation data science LLM evaluation. The eval measures how well models notice subtle data quality issues in plots. Even the most capable models today score in the mid-teens. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

Roads! (Pivot, I'm just doing Simcity in R now) #RStats #rayshader #rayrender

"And now before the work's complete, Striper truck will mark the street. Ribbons sprayed on clean and bright, some are yellow, some are white." -Construction Site: Road Crew, Coming Through! #RStats #rayshader #rayrender

Accidental RStudio #rstats hotkey discovery of the day Alt (Option) + Shift + Up/Down I knew it incremented numbers, but not words too!? in/out true/false - what else? Is there a list of these words somewhere?

Added motion blur to #rayrender and it gives a subtle but slightly more natural sense of movement as the camera zooms around this `render_highquality()` scene in rayshader #RStats #rayshader

Part of the upcoming release of #rayshader 1.0 is a complete overhaul of water meshing, allowing for multiple user-defined regions/elevations. But doing this properly on an arbitrary mesh is hard, especially if you want the mesh water tight against the terrain--but the results are worth it! #RStats

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

What can you do when you combine the great spatial ecosystem in R (sf, terra + many others) with rayshader? The only limit is your imagination.😎 Modeled. Animated. And Rendered. Entirely in R. Rayshader 1.0 coming soon 😃 #RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse

✨online wait times✨ CRAN 🫸🫷 DMV Nice work @coatless.bsky.social! The whole site is fabulous. #RStats

Introducing {rdoom} - Play Doom in #RStats (in time for #UseR2026 !) github.com/coolbutusele... This is a demonstration that {tigerfb} + {nara} can do realtime interactivity in R! Includes: keyboard & mouse control, audio, cheat modes!

Introducing {tigerfb} a cross-platform interactive framebuffer with mouse/keyboard support for #RStats github.com/coolbutusele... This pkg enables realtime rendering with feedback - making possible: games, interactive art, demos & graphical applications Img: Swarming particles following the mouse

Turn a Shiny app into a desktop app your users just double-click. shinyelectron wraps #rstats or #Python Shiny in Electron and builds a native installer for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with a runtime of your choice (including a fully offline build). Build locally or in CI. #rshiny #pyshiny

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

After seeing how quickly I was able to generate a flyby with my last render, I wrote a helper last night in #rayshader to make HQ animations with some nice defaults, so you can just fly through your scene hitting K to mark keyframes, call the function, and boom*! Beautiful animation :) #RStats

1/ I have gone back and forth on the issue, but I have officially decided that dynamic branching is the One True Branching Method in {targets}. I've succumbed to the deceptively easy promise of static mapping several times when I needed to parallelize an existing pipeline, but no longer... #RStats

The next update to rayshader has completely overhauled water meshing to support multi-elevation water bodies and includes a new feature, render_streams(), that does exactly what it says it does 👍 #RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse

‼️Big package update on CRAN! #raymolecule v0.9.0 brings ribbon diagrams! Grab PDB files directly from the RCSB Protein Data Bank with just their PDB ID and render it in #RStats with #rayrender or #rayvertex: it's that easy! read_pdb("2w5o") |> generate_ribbon_scene() |> render_model()

change is coming: no longer shall rayshader's water be constrained to a single elevation, or a single contiguous area, or even have to be flat at all :) #RStats #rayshader #rayrender

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

Got some nice improvements to high quality water rendering coming to #rayshader 👀 (it's amazing what realistic sky and sun rendering can do for a scene!) #RStats #rayrender #rayverse

New package on CRAN! {skymodelr} allows you to generate glorious high dynamic range skydomes in #RStats at any place and date/time! Realistic radiance, 0-15000m altitude, stars, planets, and of course, the moon: modeled with the correct phase and brightness! #rayverse GH: github.com/tylermorganw...

Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Here’s me learning that shiny didn’t have toolbars until now! #RStats

Sun and shadow across small valleys in the Driftless-like Root River basin of southeast Minnesota, on the summer solstice. View toward the southeast. I like how the sun at certain times brings out or obscures the unchanneled drainageways dissecting the slopes. #rayshader

🎵You spin me right ’round, baby, right here, actomyosin makes the torque while titin sits in the sarcomere.🎵 #RStats #raymolecule #rayrender #rayverse

Lots of big changes coming very soon to the rayverse, with a ton of long-planned features across many packages all coming at once :) Example: Protein ribbon diagram rendering with raymolecule! #RStats #rayverse #raymolecule

‼️New #rayrender on CRAN! v0.41.3 brings screenspace text and lines (so you can annotate in 3D independent of lighting and orientation) and a new “space heater” functionality 😋! That’s right: set `deferred_render = TRUE` and your render will never end—no more render countdown! #RStats #rayverse

New post! @nikomccarty.bsky.social and I have been writing regular round ups for a little while now, but so much has happened recently that this month’s post feels like it contains a year’s worth of breakthroughs. Read it here!

The Economist out here dropping hard truths on me before my second coffee this morning.

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order "safety" is risky. 1/

Hurrah🎉🎉🎉! #RStats

A double hole-in-one! #RStats (They’re header-only packages so it’s a bit easier, but it’s never a guarantee)

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

#MathArt #HermanRings #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding

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

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