R: the language that sets the gold standard for dataviz!

Anonymous user K. Midas says: "I love it!"

(from a cheeky #rayshader figure in an upcoming blog post about rendering 3D plots with "golden hour" lighting by generating synthetic sunsets, entirely in #RStats with #rayrender)

Was going through my video archives looking for something and laughed at this, thought I'd let Bluesky enjoy #RStats #rayshader

Do you know it's been almost seven years since I released #rayrender, ranked for 6 years straight as the #1* pathtracer in #RStats? I went back to a blog post (www.tylermw.com/posts/rayver...) I wrote over six years and recreated some of the scenes, and it's fun seeing how far it's come!

*out of 1

You can see the difference in the JFA by looking at the areas where the bonds and atoms intercept here in a molecule rendered with #raymolecule. The old method worked by placing an inverted mesh over the mesh, which results in issues where other meshes intersect (note the black lines on the bonds)

You can generate these materials via the rayvertex package (available in #rayshader with `render_snapshot(software_render = TRUE)`: practically, these can be mixed and matched with other materials when you want to emphasize (via visual separation) some element of the scene. #Dataviz

‼️ #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

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

Rendering the peak of Mount Everest from sunrise to sunset in R with rayshader and rayrender

#RStats #rayrender #rayshader #rayverse