The latest updates to the rayverse bring new meaning to smoothing out the rough edges of your next 3-D visualization, the momentum of DuckDB continues with the MotherDuck data warehouse, and the role nanoparquet plays to bring the benefits of parquet to small data sets.


Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• Sculpting the Moon in R: Subdivision Surfaces and Displacement Mapping
• Joining the flock from R: working with data on MotherDuck
• nanoparquet 0.3.0
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W26

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