Thanks Adam! I'm looking forward to writing a vignette that's basically just a photography tutorial 😀

Manhattanhenge: On May 28th/July 13th, the sun aligns with Manhattan's street grid 29° from N. This twice-a-year alignment of urban planning and orbital motion serves both as a temporal tourist attraction as well as a particular good test case for geospatial skymap alignment! #RStats #rayrender

pen and paper!

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

#RStats #rayrender #rayshader #rayverse

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}"

Nice! It’s interesting to try and intuit the geography from just the tree distribution.

Also: post-process exposure control like this is why you use a high dynamic range format like EXR when rendering, which rayrender now supports, due to the six months I spent getting all the required packages in the CRAN ecosystem for OpenEXR support!

1) Keeping the exposure the same as the dawn image at noon: yuck!

2) Adjusting the exposure down three stops with rayimage::render_exposure(): Nice!

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Rendering a tilt-shifted Mount Everest at dawn:

(dawn and dusk are the "magic hour" in rendering too, because you can represent an image in the dynamic range of a PNG/JPEG without clipping or tonemapping hacks!)

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Absolutely, the fact that we have so many coordinate systems to deal with our dumb ellipsoidal earth means needing to understand incomprehensible incantations like what's listed below... just to load in data

Thankfully sf and terra have done a good job making the process very copy/pastable

Thanks Joe!

Only takes a few lines of code to make a beautiful 3D plot in R!
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library(rayshader)
montereybay |>
sphere_shade() |>
plot_3d(heightmap=montereybay,zscale=50, water=TRUE)
render_highquality()

(I'm cheating of course--the annoying part is loading the data into R!)

Thanks Libby!

can't see how this could go wrong

A set of new render_highquality() options coming to a #rayrender near you 😀