3D Plots with Rayshader 📦 + Reflections on rstudio::conf 2020
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3D Plots with Rayshader
Do you sometimes feel your plots look a bit... flat? rayshader is a package that makes fabulous looking 3D plots and topographic maps. Great for spicing up a boring presentation and wowing your friends. It's very easy to use. This presentation will be a walk-through the key functionality of rayshader.
rayshader uses elevation data in a base R matrix and a combination of raytracing, spherical texture mapping, overlays, and ambient occlusion to generate beautiful topographic 2D and 3D maps. In addition to maps, rayshader also allows the user to translate ggplot2 objects into beautiful 3D data visualizations.
3D glasses not required.
Simon Rolph is a PhD student at the University of Sheffield in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences. I using R to do population ecology: comparing population models of hundreds of species of plants from the COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database and constructing population models of the Soay Sheep on St Kilda.
