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Generating 3D Interactive Models

In the same way that single lines of code in Python based notebooks can be used to generate and render rich interactive media as HTML+Javascript code cell outputs, so too can R notebooks by building on the htmlwidgets R package.

Note

Interactive views can also be generated as chunk outputs in RStudio and rendered into output HTML documents using packages such as knitr and bookdown; the latter provides a publishing workflow akin to that of Jupyter Book.

options(rgl.useNULL = TRUE,
        rgl.printRglwidget = TRUE)

Interactive 3D Models with rgl

The rgl package ..

library(rgl)
library(rayshader)

rgl::clear3d()

simple_matrix = matrix(c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                         0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                         0, 0, 5, 0, 0,
                         0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                         0, 0, 0, 0, 0), 5)

simple_map = simple_matrix %>%
  sphere_shade(texture = "desert", progbar = FALSE)

simple_map %>%
  plot_map()
../_images/r-3d_4_0.png 
simple_map %>%
  plot_3d(simple_matrix, linewidth=0)

rgl::rglwidget()