Nice work!

(Note that the background was clear here in the original image: apparently Bluesky doesn't support alpha transparency in images, which is disappointing because the bird site did! Feature request to @support.bsky.team)

Set `shadow = FALSE` in plot_3d(), which will remove the ground. Then set `transparent_background = TRUE` in `render_highquality()`, which will ensure any rays that intersect with the background are marked as transparent. This also will give you softer, anti-aliased edges versus a hard mask.

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

ggplot(myself) +
geom_jittery()

RStudio crashed mid-way because the window resized mid-plot 🤷‍♂️

60 million!

It's also fitting GAMs (for geom_smooth) across multiple facets and groups within each facet, so I should be well-caffeinated by the time it's done plotting

The fix was as simple as switching to a graphics device (cairo/ragg) that has the expected OETF when writing sRGB images, unlike quartz, which can apparently give you a gamma of 1.8 (which hasn't been the default on macOS since 2009's Snow Leopard 🧐).

rayshader's plot_gg() extrudes a ggplot into 3D by transforming the data in the ggplot into a greyscale image and then reading that back into rayshader, but it turns out the quartz grDevice::png() and png::readPNG() don't necessarily agree on the value of gamma, leading to the non-linearity above.

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