On 11/13/2008 8:51 AM, mentor_ wrote:
Hi,
I would like to plot a matrix which comprises 3 columns.
So first column should be the x-axis.
Second the y-axis and the third one should be the z-axis.
I know that I can plot such data using the scatterplot3d, but I would like
to
have a surface plot like you can do with wireframe and persp. But both,
persp and wireframe,
want to have x and y as descending data, at least persp. I am not sure but
wireframe is actually
doing excatly the same.
So is there a way to plot each of the three columns on a different axis and
having a surface?
You can do this in rgl, but not with data exactly as you describe. In
the persp3d and surface3d functions, the x, y and z coordinates can be
specified as in persp (z as a matrix, x and y as vectors labelling the
rows and columns), but x and/or y can also be matrices. This is useful
when the surface you're plotting isn't in the form z = f(x,y).
You can't really do it with vectors for all three without some
convention saying which points form a quad on the surface.
Duncan Murdoch
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