https://github.com/marcosci/awesome-rayshader-rayrender
A curated list of awesome rayshader and rayrender resources and shiny things.
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A curated list of awesome rayshader and rayrender resources and shiny things.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/marcosci/awesome-rayshader-rayrender
- Owner: marcosci
- License: cc0-1.0
- Created: 2021-11-12T09:05:33.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2021-11-27T16:23:38.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-11-01T06:02:12.728Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: datavisualization, digital-elevation-model, rendering
- Homepage:
- Size: 21.5 KB
- Stars: 59
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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# awesome-rayshader-rayrender [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
A curated list of awesome [rayshader](https://github.com/tylermorganwall/rayshader) and [rayrender](https://github.com/tylermorganwall/rayrender) resources and shiny things.
## rayshader
### Remote imagary and Digital Elevation Models (DEM)
* [Beautiful Maps with Rayshader](https://www.javierorraca.com/posts/2021-09-07-rayshader/)
* [Rayshading Adelboden](https://github.com/zumbov2/rayshader-adelboden)
* [Throwing Shade at the Cartographer Illuminati: Raytracing the Washington Monument in R](https://www.tylermw.com/throwing-shade/)
* [Draining Lake Mead: Making Beautiful Maps with Rayshader](https://www.tylermw.com/making-beautiful-maps/)
* [Slicing through Monterey Bay: Creating 3D Maps with Rayshader](https://www.tylermw.com/3d-maps-with-rayshader/)
* [From R to Reality: 3D Printing Maps with Rayshader](https://www.tylermw.com/3d-printing-rayshader/)
* [Portrait Mode for Data: rayshader + rayfocus](https://www.tylermw.com/portrait-mode-data/)
* [Creating 2D and 3D Visualizations with Rayshader](https://opentopography.org/blog/creating-2d-and-3d-visualizations-rayshader)
### Bathymetric
* [3D Bathymetric + Elevation Cube ](https://gist.github.com/dwbapst/bc4cfeb764c2df53e53670bf6e6eb67b)
### Urbanisation
* [Urbanisation_Mountains](https://gist.github.com/johnburnmurdoch/2fab3e26ed941cd0014970fd3ba63183)
### Historic Maps
* [Historical Map of India with 3D elevation](https://gist.github.com/tylermorganwall/cec09392cb7d3e102496e30afe5e0898)
### OpenStreetMap
* [Tutorial: Adding Open Street Map Data to Rayshader Maps in R](https://www.tylermw.com/adding-open-street-map-data-to-rayshader-maps-in-r/)
### LiDAR
* [3D render of Fort Bourtange from LiDAR data](https://gist.github.com/norwegianblueparrot/b9d5d48f2d591d78a14320bf17459cc5)
* [3D night-time scene of the 'City of London' borough](https://gist.github.com/h-a-graham/31055cdfc3a04ae2c17e07fb423dcfd7)
### Planetary shading
* [Hexagonal rayshading for Olympus Mons on Mars](https://gist.github.com/marcosci/f21c030d082a9edc2afe5bd31fb17d47)
### ggplot2
* [Introducing 3D ggplots with rayshader](https://www.tylermw.com/3d-ggplots-with-rayshader/)
* [ggßplot2 heatmap](https://github.com/bydata/30DayMapChallenge-2021/blob/main/R/day27-heatmap.R)
## rayrender
### Elementary rendering
* [Getting Started with Rayrender: Forging the R Sword](https://www.tylermw.com/getting-started-with-rayrender/)
* [The Virtual Tilt Card: Raytracing Lenticular Prints with rayrender](https://www.tylermw.com/raytracing-lenticular-gifs/)
* [Raybonsai: Generate Procedural 3D Trees in R](https://www.tylermw.com/raybonsai-generate-procedural-3d-trees-in-r/)
* [Plinko Statistics: Insights from the Bean Machine](https://www.tylermw.com/plinko-statistics-insights-from-the-bean-machine/)
### Movement rendering
* [Loading and Visualizing OpenSky Network Flight Data in R (short)](https://www.tylermw.com/loading-and-visualizing-opensky-network-data-in-r/)
### Planetary rendering
* [3D Humanity Globe]()
* [Submarine Cable Map Dataviz](https://gist.github.com/tylermorganwall/b222fcebcac3de56a6e144d73d166322)
* [Solarsystem rendering](https://gist.github.com/marcosci/f21c030d082a9edc2afe5bd31fb17d47)
* [How to: Download and Animate Polar Ice Data in R with Rayrender](https://www.tylermw.com/polar-ice-data-in-r-with-rayrender/)
## Accompanying R packages
* [rayvista](https://github.com/h-a-graham/rayvista)
## Websites
* [https://www.tylermw.com/](https://www.tylermw.com/)
# Contributing
All contributions are welcome! Please take a look at the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/marcosci/awesome-rayrender/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) first.