working on the full-affine approach to warping a zoom, from the rasterio quickstart
https://rasterio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/reproject.html#reprojecting-a-geotiff-dataset
this is very rough, just a bit of exploration and reference for me to expand elsewhere ...
f <- '/vsicurl/https://github.com/rasterio/rasterio/raw/master/tests/data/RGB.byte.tif'