3D bar chart of 2,000 digits of π arranged in a spiral, rendered with the rayshader r-package. Each bar's height and color represent a digit from 0 to 9. Data source: tidytuesday 2026 week 12 - One Million Digits of Pi (Eve Anderson collection)
I wanted to create a maze using #TidyTuesday 2026 w10 data about π digits at first but ended up having fun with #rayshader
Code: github.com/rajodm/TidyT...
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3D ggplot of parabolic great circle trajectories (i.e. ballistic-ish paths) on a non-linear Robinson projection: how do we ensure the 3D data is consistent with the underlying ggplot? Simple: we extract the coordinate transformation from the ggplot object itself!
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Well well well, what do we have here? Is that... real 3D data in my 3D ggplot? 🤫
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3/5 We can use this information along with solar positioning via {swephR} to generate a beautifully rendered realistic atmosphere in our #rayrender and #rayshader plots! Rayshader's `render_highquality()` now optionally takes lat/long + datetime inputs, so you don't even need to learn anything new!
A visualisation of the population of nine French cities
Introducing population tiles of France.
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Danube basin
Did this a while back but forgot to share: the Danube basin.
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Paraná basin
The Paraná basin.
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Average monthly precipitation of the world, 1970–2000
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Yangtze basin
Today's basin is the Yangtze.
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Average monthly precipitation of Japan, 1970–2000.
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Mekong basin
Another day, another basin: the Mekong basin.
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Mississippi basin
The Mississippi basin.
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Nile basin
The Nile basin.
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A visualisation of Australia's power lines
Power lines (OSM and derived) of Australia.
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Colorado basin
The Colorado basin.
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Congo basin
The Congo basin.
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin
The Ganges–Brahmaputra basin. Have another version that includes even more rivers but that's taking forever.
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A visualisation of the rivers of the Amazon basin
The Amazon basin. Been wanting to do this for a while and finally managed to fix the errors I was getting.
I rather like how it turned out.
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A visualisation of Vietnam's power lines
Power lines (OSM and derived) of Vietnam.
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A visualisation of Thailand's power lines
Power lines (OSM and derived) of Thailand.
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Happy Groundhog Day! In honor of the day, here's an infinitely repeating video of a realistic atmospheric simulation showing the shadows the sun casts on February 2nd. (over Monterey Bay, California, because no one would want to go to Punxsutawney, PA right now).
#RStats #rayshader #skymodelr
A visualisation of Portugal's power lines
Power lines (OSM and derived) of Portugal (minus Madeira and the Azores).
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A visualisation of Romania's power lines
Power lines (OSM and derived) of Romania.
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If you're looking for diversions, here's a tour of the moraines around Boulder Lake on the west side of the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Should have made this before I taught geomorphology for probably the last time this spring. Data from @opentopography.org, visualized with #Rayshader as usual.
A visualisation of South America's freshwater ecoregions
Freshwater ecoregions of South America.
But why didn't you do this in #rayshader?! Of course I did, but am still sorting out a few issues because rivers don't fall neatly into categories...
#ggplot2 adventures, an #rstats tale
Cipriano Hills, Organ Pipe Cactus NM (NE of Quitobaquito Springs). I hope you like this but I really just made it for my own nostalgic enjoyment. Data from @opentopography.org, visualized with #rayshader.
3D rendered view of a black, glossy abstract manhattan street with the sun setting in the distance, perfectly aligned with the east-west grid alignment
An "atmospheric" frame from an animation demonstrating the "Mahattanhenge" phenomenon in my upcoming blog post about rendering realistic atmospheres in R.
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A visualisation of nine Japanese volcanoes
Nine volcanoes of Japan. Mt. Fuji is instantly recognisable. The others too, I hope.
This took a while to get right. Looks like fancy chocolates, no? Or little LED buttons.
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A glitchy draft render
Not sure what happened here but I like it!
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A visualisation of lighthouses on a USGS map of Delaware Bay
Lighthouses of Delaware Bay.
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