Tyler Morgan-Wall

Hi all! A (re)-introduction: I'm Tyler, developer of #rayshader and the #rayverse, a collection of R packages for 3D #dataviz and #mapping. Here's one of my greatest hits (now that Bluesky supports videos!): The Earth's submarine fiber optic cable network, visualized in #RStats with #rayrender.

@capitalweather.com I saw these isolated "scars" in the clouds last night after the rain passed through before sunset in silver spring: what could cause such aligned localized creases in the clouds? Vortices from aircraft departing from DCA?

Still working out some kinks but I thought I'd share for people in a similar situation. We have a mostly nonverbal autistic kid who can actually do sight-words OK. I realized I could make music videos with exactly his sight-word set and favorite topics using Claude (the model was sonnet 5.5).

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

Voter turnout in Prague City Assembly Elections by districts with #Rstats and #rayshader. I leave interpretation of the elections to my smarter colleagues at Charles University, these are just useless, silly maps:)

Rendering Moana's Island in #RStats with #rayrender: now in 4K, with textures!

I like this view better, from the north-northeast. I think the top of the Ogallala is marked by the change to less dissected interfluves dropping less steeply toward the valley. #rayshader

quick screencap of qmd->docx->qmd comment flow in quarto 2/quarto-hub

🚨 New CRAN Task View: Package Development and Maintenance #rstats #cran By Lluís Revilla and Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Package...

Ahh, that's better! Nice, clean 3D ggplots with no texture bleeding (because those are real 3D polygons, automatically transformed into the 3D coordinate system of the underlying ggplot!) render_polygons( us_states, data_column_top = "total_pop_15", color = "height" ) #RStats #rayshader

This corner of a children’s coloring placemat has literally no entertainment value, I’m fairly sure it was developed purely to trigger millennial parents and get engagement on social media

Still enjoy this comic I made years ago, even if I haven’t done any graphics work in so long.

Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions! 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!" ------------------ “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything” -Ronald H. Coase ------------------ Rendered in #RStats with #rayrender

This rocks!

we all love "Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable" but I must say I'm also quite partial to "Error: attempt to apply non-function"

I'm super glad to report that mori is now part of r-lib. mori.r-lib.org

Thrilled to have just presented "Never block, never copy. mirai + mori from Shiny to the cluster" at posit::conf(2026). The slides are available here: shikokuchuo.net/posit2026 mirai: mirai.r-lib.org mori: shikokuchuo.net/mori/ #tidyverse #rshiny #positconf2026

@wesmckinney.com makes the case for a post-language landscape in the era of AI: is this the end of #RStats versus #python language wars?😋 #positconf

Phew! Just in the nick of time! It's a #positconf miracle! #RStats

Great relevant keynote on the intersection of AI, agents, HSI, and data analysis by @sara-altman.bsky.social and @simonpcouch.com! #RStats #datascience #positconf

R-based virtual envs!

View from the opposite direction, same time and date. Look at how nicely it renders those gullies and small dams in the lower left! I could spend a lot of time on this, but I also want to get out to this area again in October. #rayshader

Visualization of a southern Driftless Area at 8AM on January 1. View to the southwest. Created with #rayshader using render_highquality and skymodel_r. Mostly for my own enjoyment now, but I could make some of these to talk about slope aspect and microclimate, couldn't I?

as the Washington Post reeled from layoffs and, uh, other things, a heap of stellar reporters and columnists (and also me) left for NOTUS to help build a new newspaper for D.C. Good news! NOTUS is now The Washington Sun. washingtonsun.com/about-us/pre...

One reason I know LLMs won't take over academia is that the simply cannot feel so annoyed by not knowing something, the true essence of an academic

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

Very important #RStats survey: BOBYQA: 1) Boh-by-... 2) Boh-bee-... 3) Bah-by-... 4) Bobby-... + A) kwah B) ka