piecepackr has some basic support for projecting 3D board games onto a 2D diagram. It can make diagrams using an orthographic or oblique parallel projection using R’s grid graphics library. It can also render images using the rayrender, rayvertex, and rgl 3D graphics packages. These latter packages usually use a perspective projection but can be configured to produce parallel projections.

Although using piecepackr‘s configuration lists provide a powerful high-level way to alter the appearance of your piecepack graphics piecepackr also allows one to modify the appearance of your piecepack graphics even more with the use of custom grob functions.

piecepackr allows one to alter the appearance of one’s board game pieces through the use of configuration lists.

piecepackr is an R package to easily make piecepack graphics. It can be used to make piecepack game diagrams and animations as well as Print & Play layouts so you can make your own piecepack.