My quest to render the Moana scene in #RStats with #rayrender was not only successful, but it also led to a bugfix in base R!
In the words of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: "What can I say except: you're welcome!"
In the words of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: "What can I say except: you're welcome!"
November 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
My quest to render the Moana scene in #RStats with #rayrender was not only successful, but it also led to a bugfix in base R!
In the words of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: "What can I say except: you're welcome!"
In the words of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: "What can I say except: you're welcome!"
lightpaths.cloudish.app
Demo for #rayrender by @tylermw.com running in @cloudishapp.bsky.social generated one-shot with Claude with prompt:
"Build an amazing demo of how ray tracing works that evokes awe, amazing UX, must use rayrender R package and deploy to cloudish.ai"
Demo for #rayrender by @tylermw.com running in @cloudishapp.bsky.social generated one-shot with Claude with prompt:
"Build an amazing demo of how ray tracing works that evokes awe, amazing UX, must use rayrender R package and deploy to cloudish.ai"
November 4, 2026 at 4:55 PM
lightpaths.cloudish.app
Demo for #rayrender by @tylermw.com running in @cloudishapp.bsky.social generated one-shot with Claude with prompt:
"Build an amazing demo of how ray tracing works that evokes awe, amazing UX, must use rayrender R package and deploy to cloudish.ai"
Demo for #rayrender by @tylermw.com running in @cloudishapp.bsky.social generated one-shot with Claude with prompt:
"Build an amazing demo of how ray tracing works that evokes awe, amazing UX, must use rayrender R package and deploy to cloudish.ai"
@tylermw.com sent you this one github.com/tylermorganw... :)
Add LightPaths interactive website to Tutorials/Demos menu by javierluraschi · Pull Request #63 · tylermorganwall/rayrender
Hi Tyler, if this helps, adding a link to https://lightpaths.cloudish.app/ under the Tutorials/Demos navbar dropdown
github.com
November 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
@tylermw.com sent you this one github.com/tylermorganw... :)
This is absolutely insane, I just rendered this effectively 3.1 billion triangles 900 frame 16 sample per pixel 960x540 animation in #RStats last night in 6 hours using the M1 GPU and #rayrender -- it would have taken a WEEK with the CPU renderer. Completely game changing for iterative work
October 13, 2026 at 11:44 AM
This is absolutely insane, I just rendered this effectively 3.1 billion triangles 900 frame 16 sample per pixel 960x540 animation in #RStats last night in 6 hours using the M1 GPU and #rayrender -- it would have taken a WEEK with the CPU renderer. Completely game changing for iterative work
oh my. here's a crazy idea in 2026: using a GPU... for graphics!
same laptop. identical result. 15x faster render 🤯
Rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
same laptop. identical result. 15x faster render 🤯
Rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
October 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
oh my. here's a crazy idea in 2026: using a GPU... for graphics!
same laptop. identical result. 15x faster render 🤯
Rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
same laptop. identical result. 15x faster render 🤯
Rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
Rendering Moana's Island in #RStats with #rayrender: now in 4K, with textures!
October 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Rendering Moana's Island in #RStats with #rayrender: now in 4K, with textures!
People think it's really easy to make a rotating 3D map in R nowadays, but you don't see the hours of practice that #rayshader had to put in behind the scenes to make it look that effortless.
(from my upcoming rayshader 1.0 release blog post😀)
Created and rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
(from my upcoming rayshader 1.0 release blog post😀)
Created and rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
October 6, 2026 at 11:57 AM
People think it's really easy to make a rotating 3D map in R nowadays, but you don't see the hours of practice that #rayshader had to put in behind the scenes to make it look that effortless.
(from my upcoming rayshader 1.0 release blog post😀)
Created and rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
(from my upcoming rayshader 1.0 release blog post😀)
Created and rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
❗Did I just render Disney’s full Moana Island scene in #RStats with #rayrender? Yes.
‼️Did I import and assemble all 25 GB of scene descriptions in R using {tibble} and {vctrs}, then render it in R? Also yes.
💥Did importing it uncover a bug in R’s garbage collector? SURPRISE! YES!
‼️Did I import and assemble all 25 GB of scene descriptions in R using {tibble} and {vctrs}, then render it in R? Also yes.
💥Did importing it uncover a bug in R’s garbage collector? SURPRISE! YES!
October 5, 2026 at 11:08 AM
❗Did I just render Disney’s full Moana Island scene in #RStats with #rayrender? Yes.
‼️Did I import and assemble all 25 GB of scene descriptions in R using {tibble} and {vctrs}, then render it in R? Also yes.
💥Did importing it uncover a bug in R’s garbage collector? SURPRISE! YES!
‼️Did I import and assemble all 25 GB of scene descriptions in R using {tibble} and {vctrs}, then render it in R? Also yes.
💥Did importing it uncover a bug in R’s garbage collector? SURPRISE! YES!
September 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM
September 27, 2026 at 12:08 AM
September 25, 2026 at 11:11 AM
September 24, 2026 at 11:23 AM
September 24, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Rayrender calling my name every time I see these beautiful images
September 24, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Rayrender calling my name every time I see these beautiful images
September 23, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
::vomits from motion sickness::
... Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
#RStats #rayrender
Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
::vomits from motion sickness::
... Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
#RStats #rayrender
September 22, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
::vomits from motion sickness::
... Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
#RStats #rayrender
Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
::vomits from motion sickness::
... Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions!
#RStats #rayrender
Data: "Do you expect me to publish?"
Analyst: "No, Mr. Data: I expect you to perish!"
...
Data: "p < 0.05! p < 0.05!"
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“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything” -Ronald H. Coase
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Rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
Analyst: "No, Mr. Data: I expect you to perish!"
...
Data: "p < 0.05! p < 0.05!"
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“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything” -Ronald H. Coase
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Rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
September 22, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Data: "Do you expect me to publish?"
Analyst: "No, Mr. Data: I expect you to perish!"
...
Data: "p < 0.05! p < 0.05!"
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“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything” -Ronald H. Coase
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Rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
Analyst: "No, Mr. Data: I expect you to perish!"
...
Data: "p < 0.05! p < 0.05!"
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“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything” -Ronald H. Coase
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Rendered in #RStats with #rayrender
2019: "I don't want to learn Blender: I'm going to write my own renderer in R, so I never have to use a GUI and can write all my scenes as code!"
2026: "... and then you call raygui(), and you can explore and change your scene without writing any code at all!"
🤷♂️
#RStats #rayrender
2026: "... and then you call raygui(), and you can explore and change your scene without writing any code at all!"
🤷♂️
#RStats #rayrender
September 20, 2026 at 3:34 AM
2019: "I don't want to learn Blender: I'm going to write my own renderer in R, so I never have to use a GUI and can write all my scenes as code!"
2026: "... and then you call raygui(), and you can explore and change your scene without writing any code at all!"
🤷♂️
#RStats #rayrender
2026: "... and then you call raygui(), and you can explore and change your scene without writing any code at all!"
🤷♂️
#RStats #rayrender
Updates on CRAN: geozarr (0.2.0), gleifr (0.3.0), MD2sample (1.4.0), nanoparquet (0.5.2), PatientGenerator (0.2.4), pks (0.8-0), rayrender (0.42.0), TraMineR (2.2-14), varmapack (0.1.2)
September 16, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Updates on CRAN: geozarr (0.2.0), gleifr (0.3.0), MD2sample (1.4.0), nanoparquet (0.5.2), PatientGenerator (0.2.4), pks (0.8-0), rayrender (0.42.0), TraMineR (2.2-14), varmapack (0.1.2)
Excited to be at #positconf this year! I'm not giving a talk, but find me to talk about realistic geospatial visualization with #rayshader, lots of cool new improvements to 3D rendering and animation in #RStats with #rayrender, and enhancing {targets} workflows with #tarborist! 👋
September 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Excited to be at #positconf this year! I'm not giving a talk, but find me to talk about realistic geospatial visualization with #rayshader, lots of cool new improvements to 3D rendering and animation in #RStats with #rayrender, and enhancing {targets} workflows with #tarborist! 👋
Finally: #rayshader will soon have the beautiful sunsets made in #RStats I've always dreamed of, along an actual sense of scale for your landscapes, thanks to some big updates I'm pushing to #rayrender and #skymodelr 😀
You can ask me more in Houston at #positconf 👋
You can ask me more in Houston at #positconf 👋
September 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Finally: #rayshader will soon have the beautiful sunsets made in #RStats I've always dreamed of, along an actual sense of scale for your landscapes, thanks to some big updates I'm pushing to #rayrender and #skymodelr 😀
You can ask me more in Houston at #positconf 👋
You can ask me more in Houston at #positconf 👋
Rayshader: now a realistic "flying through clouds" dream simulator in R with rayrender's new volume rendering! All I need to add now are whooshing air sounds and a faceless clown who slowly chases you throughout the scene—gaining, always gaining.
#RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse
#RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse
September 8, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Rayshader: now a realistic "flying through clouds" dream simulator in R with rayrender's new volume rendering! All I need to add now are whooshing air sounds and a faceless clown who slowly chases you throughout the scene—gaining, always gaining.
#RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse
#RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse
A fly-by ski trip generated entirely in #RStats with #rayshader and #rayrender, featuring realistic lighting for that location at a specific date and time, properly marked roads, trails, ski trails, streams, lakes, houses, and 2 million (!) individually rendered trees! All generated from {sf} data!
September 4, 2026 at 10:47 AM
A fly-by ski trip generated entirely in #RStats with #rayshader and #rayrender, featuring realistic lighting for that location at a specific date and time, properly marked roads, trails, ski trails, streams, lakes, houses, and 2 million (!) individually rendered trees! All generated from {sf} data!