#30DayMapsChallenge Day 17: A new tool Played around with #rayshader to look at Mont Rainier (Washington).

One thing I appreciate about {targets} is the robustness of the pipeline: if I need to stop a long, compute-intensive process to run something else (or, in this case, I resize a pane and make the IDE crash🤷‍♂️), I don't need to worry about corrupted state: just restart R and tar_make() away! #RStats

‼️ #rayverse package update: #rayvertex v0.14.0 released! This overhauls the toon shading algorithm to use a screen space jump fill algorithm (JFA), removing the brittle inverse mesh hack that existed up until now. #RStats

Forest canopy height of Yellowstone National Park. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Guess I'm going to go get some coffee while this thing plots #RStats #ggplot

a “Space Force”, if you will

Oh thank god I finally fixed this rayshader 3D ggplot issue that has been bothering me for YEARS (thankfully before anyone called me out on it) #RStats #rayshader

Aurora down in northern Illinois. Only the third time I've seen it

Sur un #R du #30DayMapChallenge #line, j'ai découvert le pkg #rayshader (3D). J'ai donc pensé à représenter mon île, la Réunion, selon l'altitude 😊 avec le 3 cirques et le Piton des Neiges qui culmine à 3070m. #rstats Données trouvées courbes de niveaux: geoservices.ign.fr/courbes-de-n...

#30DayMapChallenge – Day 5: Earth Given the importance of these, global occurrence of rare earth elements according to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the great hashtag#rayrender package in R.

I think that @davisvaughan.bsky.social figured this out. add the following to your settings.json should do the trick "window.title": "${activeEditorShort}${separator}${rootName}${separator}${profileName}${separator}${activeRepositoryBranchName}"

Forest canopy height of Zion National Park, Utah. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

#30DayMapChallenge · Day 8 · Urban. Global urban areas. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

uhh always check your gif's AI-generated alt text before posting

Day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge (3D), a render of Mount Rainier with a realistic atmospheric skydome generated w/ a lat/long/datetime, rendered entirely in #RStats with #rayshader and #rayrender! The atmosphere is annoyingly realistic: I now have to dial in the exposure depending on the time of day!

Tree canopy height of Paris, France. Have given up on #30DayMapChallenge. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

3D Tanaka contour map of Scotland with #rayshader for Day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Dimensions. Code: github.com/rajodm/30Day... Thanks @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social for the helpful tutorial! #dataviz #rstats #ggplot2

Day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge makes things 3D! I took my elevation map from yesterday and made it so with the {rayshader} package. #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

Had a bit of fun making a new map of the False Creek area Still a work in progress, but I like the direction #rstudio #rayshader #vancouver

A little bit of #ggplot2 and #rayshader for the "dimensions" prompt on day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge! 🌧️ #RStats #DataViz

Day 6 — Dimensions 3D Geological Map of Asturias A blend of past and present — combining mid-20th century geology with modern topography to reimagine the landscapes of Asturias in 3D. #30DayMapChallenge #Dimensions #Asturias #Cartography #rayshader

I like Positron a lot for package development*! But after a year-ish of using it, I find myself consistently sticking with RStudio for data analysis work. RStudio just has a much higher SNR and it's fixed layout is much less prone to clutter, which is nice for cognitive-heavy loads. #RStats

okay writing a mesh beveling algorithm is like the fencepost issue on steroids

Day 6 of #30DayMapChallenge ~ Dimensions. Half-marathon challenge route. #rstats #dataviz #rayshader #gis #map #spatial

Big cool features coming to the #rayverse: it only took a half year of CRAN ping pong for 3 low level infra packages with challenging configurations and a complete internal overhaul of rayimage to support proper colorspace management, all to just set the stage for the actual cool stuff :) #RStats

Molybdenite, huh? Time to post this animated 3D view of the Climax Mine with its big exotic-colored tailings ponds perched up on the Continental Divide. Created with #rayshader.

#30DayMapChallenge · Day 2 · Lines. Bathymetry of the Atlantic Ocean as illuminated contours. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Forest canopy height of Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Stuff in space can be big so I want to have big detailed surfaces. I implemented old-school tilemaps (like from 2D consoles and 80s video arcades) in a pixel shader. 64K x 64K texels. Like virtual texture, but tiles all loaded, unmipped page table, shader manually bilinear-filters across tile edges.

Tree height map of Montréal. See the blank space without any trees in the middle? If you aren't from Montréal, what do you think that is? :) #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

I made a new kind of map This one is of the City of North Vancouver, with City Hall right at the centre Still a work in progress, both in understanding the code and in the design Big thank you to @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social who made a great tutorial video and shared his code! #rstats #rayshader

Debated whether I should participate this year—a crisis of confidence and purpose and all that—but here I am again. #30DayMapChallenge · Day 1 · Points: Threats to global shipping as measured by anti-shipping activity messages. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

I love how it looks Stebe! Awesome work and thank you for bringing my tutorial to life! Tutorial 👉 youtu.be/E7F75OFXu-I

Happy #rayrender Halloween indeed! @tterence.bsky.social inspired me to whip up an animation: a pumpkin made entirely in rayrender! (CSG for the carved pumpkin, extruded path stem, cyl + sphere candle, and r_obj eyes) Also, denoising made the below animation render in <3 minutes! #RStats

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

dplyr::rows_update() and dplyr::rows_patch() continue to be super helpful functions when you want to fill missing data with data collected from another source. #rstats More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...

I spent about two days learning and implementing atmosphere rendering for planetary views from space. The tutorials and other sources I found on it were prettty lacking in implementation details but I got there in the end. Too late now, but does anyone have any recommends? Should I write an article?

The OPERA InSAR dataset is a *phenomenal* resource. Check this out. This ground subsidence in southern California is likely due to ground compaction and aquifer depletion. 🧪⚒️🛰️

It’s been a while since I posted any non-work stuff so here are a few recent crochet projects. All are from “Animal friends of Picapau2” by Yan Schenkel.

Continuing with forest canopy heights, here's one of Switzerland. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Looking for an overview of different #RStats packages for visualising spatial data? 📊 Here's a previous blog post of mine: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/r-packa... This blog post is almost three years old now, but all of the code still works! #DataViz #RSpatial #30DayMapChallenge

Forest canopy height of Yosemite National Park. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Pro-tip: Never learn about colorspaces. "I love learning new things. Why yes, I'll eat that red apple, what a friendly snake!" ::crunch:: "Wait... this apple isn't #ff0000, it's outside the sRGB gamut! Why does everything look terrible? Oh no... do I have to fix years of ad-hoc color handling?"😱

reticulate v1.44 is on CRAN! Positron integration is now enabled by default. Enjoy R and Python REPL consoles powered by concurrent threads in the same process, zero‑copy R↔Python data transfer, and full Variables Pane support. Full changelog: github.com/rstudio/reti... #rstats #python #pydata

Somewhere in the Andaman Sea. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Forest canopy height of beautiful Shikotsu-Toya National Park, Hokkaido. I rather like how the mountains look like holes and are distinguishable from the lakes by looking at the way the canopy height changes. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Bathymetry of the Laccadive Sea. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Since we're headed into winter, here's a view of sun and shadow moving across a "Driftless-like" landscape on the winter solstice (ridges along the South Fork Root River valley, southeastern Minnesota). Looks dark and cold in the valleys. Uses #rayshader and {suntools} R packages.

A visualisation of forest canopy height in Shiretoko National Park, Hokkaido, two ways. Which do you prefer? I can never decide. What I can say is that Shiretoko is beautiful. And windy. And the sika are unafraid. Also, hot waterfalls. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

#rstats Dev Diary: Realization about this rendering technique: I'm not warping the object, I'm warping space to be non-euclidean! "It is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself." #thereisnospoon