A 5x improvement in rayshader's software rendering speed ain't too shabby...

Context: My original software rendering implementation was a quick-and-dirty hack that took advantage of the fact that I had already written an OBJ exporter and my software renderer had an OBJ importer, so I could link the two with little additional effort by writing/reading the scene to the filesystem. With caching it was okay, but that initial write could be painful for big 3D models.

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Long overdue #rayverse updates! I finally (after two years--whoops😬 ) updated #rayshader on the CRAN to the latest version, and also pushed a new update to #rayvertex to include a mesh validator function, which should help prevent crashes due to bad inputs.

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Spiral ridgelines

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Textured ridgelines in R—combining rayshader and rayvertex to create something slightly different

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Added a pure R "vertex shader" option to rayvertex... makes for some interesting ridgeplots :)

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Now playing around with these visualizations in rayvertex (it's 10x faster to render and gives a noise-free final image)

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Now playing around with these visualizations in rayvertex (it's 10x faster to render and gives a noise-free final image)

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