Christmas tree
So it is Christmas and I want a tree. I found this new package experimental ggfx and I thought it would be nice to use it for the lights. Then some time later I found (through twitter) this other repo about building trees.
So here I am building my own christmas tree!
The very basics
We start with installations:
devtools::install_github('thomasp85/ggfx')We’ll build our tree with triangles:
library("ggplot2")
ggplot(data.frame(x = c(-5, 5, 0), y = c(0, 0, 5))) +
geom_polygon(aes(x, y), fill = "green") +
theme_void()
To make it easier we use some functions for the triangles:
iso_triangle <- function(wide, height, xvertix, yvertix) {
y <- c(rep(yvertix-height, 2), yvertix)
x <- c(xvertix+wide/2, xvertix-wide/2, xvertix)
data.frame(x, y)
}
square <- function(length, x_bottom_right, y_bottom_right) {
x <- rep(c(x_bottom_right-length, x_bottom_right), 2)
y <- rep(c(y_bottom_right, y_bottom_right+length), each = 2)
data.frame(x, y)[c(1, 3, 4, 2), ]
}And off to build a tree:
tree <- ggplot() +
aes(x, y) +
geom_polygon(data = square(0.5, 0.25, 0.25), fill = "brown") +
geom_polygon(data = iso_triangle(10, 4, 0, 4.5), fill = "darkgreen") +
geom_polygon(data = iso_triangle(9, 4, 0, 4.5), fill = "lightgreen") +
geom_polygon(data = iso_triangle(8, 3, 0, 6), fill = "green") +
geom_polygon(data = iso_triangle(7, 3, 0, 6), fill = "darkgreen") +
geom_polygon(data = iso_triangle(6, 2.5, 0, 7), fill = "lightgreen") +
geom_polygon(data = iso_triangle(5, 2.5, 0, 7), fill = "green") +
geom_polygon(data = iso_triangle(4, 1.5, 0, 7.5), fill = "darkgreen") +
geom_polygon(data = iso_triangle(3, 1.5, 0, 7.5), fill = "lightgreen") +
geom_polygon(data = iso_triangle(2, 1.5, 0, 8), fill = "green")
tree
The tree looks good enough, but if you disagree or want some more realistic trees see this challenge. Very funny to play with it (but I didn’t manage to build my tree with it :/). Anyway, now we have the tree and we need to turn them to a glowing tree!!
Decorating the tree
Now it is time to decorate and turn on the lights with the help of ggfx:
library("ggfx")
tree +
with_blur(geom_point(data =data.frame(x = 0, y = 8), size = 3, col = "yellow"), sigma = 2, stack = TRUE) +
with_blur(geom_point(data =data.frame(x = c(2, -3), y = c(1.5, 1)), size = 3, col = "darkgreen"), sigma = 2, stack = TRUE) +
with_blur(geom_point(data =data.frame(x = c(2, -3), y = 2.5+c(1, 1.2)), size = 3, col = "purple"), sigma = 2, stack = TRUE) +
with_blur(geom_point(data =data.frame(x = -5, y = 0.5), size = 3, col = "red"), sigma = 2, stack = TRUE) +
with_blur(geom_point(data =data.frame(x = 5, y = 0.5), size = 3, col = "orange"), sigma = 2, stack = TRUE) +
with_blur(geom_point(data =data.frame(x = -2.5, y = 4), size = 3, col = "red"), sigma = 2, stack = TRUE) +
with_blur(geom_point(data =data.frame(x = 3, y = 3.5), size = 3, col = "black"), sigma = 2, stack = TRUE) +
with_blur(geom_point(data =data.frame(x = c(-1, 1.25), y = c(5, 5.5)), size = 3, col = "orange"), sigma = 2, stack = TRUE) +
theme_void() +
theme(plot.background = element_rect(fill = "black")) +
NULL
And now we have our Christmas tree decorated!
Happy Christmas!!
Reproducibility
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Lluís Revilla Sancho
Bioinformatician
Bioinformatician with interests in functional enrichment, data integration and transcriptomics.