How to Make a Beautiful Stacked 3D Plot Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern) Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara Unicorn Meta Zoo #1: Why another podcast?How to create beautiful (block) diagramsHow do I use designs in a stacked bar chart with precise statistics?What characteristics make a graph look professional?How can I present this information with less required user interaction?How to make a flow chart like these ones?How to create a line graph around a circleHow to set the data range for palette to map out color in gnuplotWhat is this type of graph/plot called?How to show multiple years of line data for comparisonHow do you create Arc/Rainbow Charts?

Can anything be seen from the center of the Boötes void? How dark would it be?

How do pianists reach extremely loud dynamics?

8 Prisoners wearing hats

How to Make a Beautiful Stacked 3D Plot

Why didn't Eitri join the fight?

Dating a Former Employee

Extracting terms with certain heads in a function

2001: A Space Odyssey's use of the song "Daisy Bell" (Bicycle Built for Two); life imitates art or vice-versa?

Around usage results

How to compare two different files line by line in unix?

Can a party unilaterally change candidates in preparation for a General election?

What would be the ideal power source for a cybernetic eye?

Is there a kind of relay only consumes power when switching?

Delete nth line from bottom

Is safe to use va_start macro with this as parameter?

Why are the trig functions versine, haversine, exsecant, etc, rarely used in modern mathematics?

Can an alien society believe that their star system is the universe?

How do I stop a creek from eroding my steep embankment?

Irreducible of finite Krull dimension implies quasi-compact?

Is there such thing as an Availability Group failover trigger?

How come Sam didn't become Lord of Horn Hill?

Can melee weapons be used to deliver Contact Poisons?

Why are there no cargo aircraft with "flying wing" design?

An adverb for when you're not exaggerating



How to Make a Beautiful Stacked 3D Plot



Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Unicorn Meta Zoo #1: Why another podcast?How to create beautiful (block) diagramsHow do I use designs in a stacked bar chart with precise statistics?What characteristics make a graph look professional?How can I present this information with less required user interaction?How to make a flow chart like these ones?How to create a line graph around a circleHow to set the data range for palette to map out color in gnuplotWhat is this type of graph/plot called?How to show multiple years of line data for comparisonHow do you create Arc/Rainbow Charts?










4















I am looking to make a plot where:



  • Plot is composed of a group of 2D plots, stacked in 3D.

  • The height of the line is indicated by the color.

  • The mean of the wave of each plot is indicated by a dashed line to
    the axis.

How is this type of graph called?



Simplest / fastest way of doing something similar (less complex than in the image, I don't need 3 of those, and the black and white waveforms to the right etc.).



enter image description here










share|improve this question







New contributor




user1581390 is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.















  • 2





    Do you want to visualize some numeric data or do you only need a flashy looking chart for decorative purposes? The chart presents one value as a function of 2 variables. At least one of those 2 variables seem to have only quite few discrete values. The sparse variable can simply be the number of an observed target or time series and the presented function actually has only one variable.

    – user287001
    9 hours ago
















4















I am looking to make a plot where:



  • Plot is composed of a group of 2D plots, stacked in 3D.

  • The height of the line is indicated by the color.

  • The mean of the wave of each plot is indicated by a dashed line to
    the axis.

How is this type of graph called?



Simplest / fastest way of doing something similar (less complex than in the image, I don't need 3 of those, and the black and white waveforms to the right etc.).



enter image description here










share|improve this question







New contributor




user1581390 is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.















  • 2





    Do you want to visualize some numeric data or do you only need a flashy looking chart for decorative purposes? The chart presents one value as a function of 2 variables. At least one of those 2 variables seem to have only quite few discrete values. The sparse variable can simply be the number of an observed target or time series and the presented function actually has only one variable.

    – user287001
    9 hours ago














4












4








4


1






I am looking to make a plot where:



  • Plot is composed of a group of 2D plots, stacked in 3D.

  • The height of the line is indicated by the color.

  • The mean of the wave of each plot is indicated by a dashed line to
    the axis.

How is this type of graph called?



Simplest / fastest way of doing something similar (less complex than in the image, I don't need 3 of those, and the black and white waveforms to the right etc.).



enter image description here










share|improve this question







New contributor




user1581390 is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.












I am looking to make a plot where:



  • Plot is composed of a group of 2D plots, stacked in 3D.

  • The height of the line is indicated by the color.

  • The mean of the wave of each plot is indicated by a dashed line to
    the axis.

How is this type of graph called?



Simplest / fastest way of doing something similar (less complex than in the image, I don't need 3 of those, and the black and white waveforms to the right etc.).



enter image description here







data-visualisation chart-design






share|improve this question







New contributor




user1581390 is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.











share|improve this question







New contributor




user1581390 is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.









share|improve this question




share|improve this question






New contributor




user1581390 is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.









asked 10 hours ago









user1581390user1581390

1211




1211




New contributor




user1581390 is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.





New contributor





user1581390 is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.






user1581390 is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.







  • 2





    Do you want to visualize some numeric data or do you only need a flashy looking chart for decorative purposes? The chart presents one value as a function of 2 variables. At least one of those 2 variables seem to have only quite few discrete values. The sparse variable can simply be the number of an observed target or time series and the presented function actually has only one variable.

    – user287001
    9 hours ago













  • 2





    Do you want to visualize some numeric data or do you only need a flashy looking chart for decorative purposes? The chart presents one value as a function of 2 variables. At least one of those 2 variables seem to have only quite few discrete values. The sparse variable can simply be the number of an observed target or time series and the presented function actually has only one variable.

    – user287001
    9 hours ago








2




2





Do you want to visualize some numeric data or do you only need a flashy looking chart for decorative purposes? The chart presents one value as a function of 2 variables. At least one of those 2 variables seem to have only quite few discrete values. The sparse variable can simply be the number of an observed target or time series and the presented function actually has only one variable.

– user287001
9 hours ago






Do you want to visualize some numeric data or do you only need a flashy looking chart for decorative purposes? The chart presents one value as a function of 2 variables. At least one of those 2 variables seem to have only quite few discrete values. The sparse variable can simply be the number of an observed target or time series and the presented function actually has only one variable.

– user287001
9 hours ago











4 Answers
4






active

oldest

votes


















4














Scaling law



The name in its original publication from WIRED magazine



enter image description here



The scaling-law definition according to sciencedirect.com




Scaling laws are relations between physical quantities in which all the physical quantities appear in terms of powers, whereby a power of x is expressed in the form xα where α is a real number.




and




The scaling laws for 2D geometry can be extended into three-dimensional (3D) case





About how to make something similar, I think it's a mix of charts made in an application that allows a graphic representation by data dump plus a montage in a vector program to generate the isometric perspective and data/references adding.



In a practical way, I could tell you if I had to make that poster, I would ask all the charts to assemble the design in Illustrator. The original image looks too neat to have been made in a program that is not vector drawing:



enter image description here






share|improve this answer

























  • A scaling law is a mathematical relationship between variables. It is not the name of this form of visualisation, which could represent variables connected in many other ways (for example, each series could represent a density plot or simple histogram). These sorts of charts have recently been termed ridgeplots or (briefly) joyplots in the data science world: serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots Non-3d examples here: google.com/#tbm=isch&q=ridgeplot or as an another answer here suggests, waterfall plots.

    – Michael MacAskill
    52 mins ago



















3














%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 400 400
%%Title: Isometric Graph Drawing
%%Creator: Janne Ojala
%%CreationDate: 2019-04-17
%%EndComments

/up dup translate def
/down neg up def
/isometric-bottom [30 cos 30 sin 150 cos 150 sin 0 0] concat def

/isometric-back [30 cos 30 sin 90 cos 90 sin 0 0] concat def
/c newpath 1 0 360 arc closepath fill def


/Arial findfont 24 scalefont setfont

100 160 translate
gsave
isometric-back
0 0 moveto
/FuturaStd-Medium findfont 18 scalefont setfont
(IsoGraph) show
grestore

gsave
0 1 12
pop
150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
gsave
isometric-bottom
0 10 200 0 c for
grestore
for
grestore

150 cos -20 mul 150 sin -20 mul translate

gsave
isometric-back
newpath
50 0 moveto
55 0 55 33 60 33 curveto
65 33 65 12 70 12 curveto
75 12 75 0 80 0 curveto
85 0 85 16 90 16 curveto
95 16 95 0 100 0 curveto
gsave
closepath
stroke
grestore
fill
grestore

150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
gsave
isometric-back
newpath
80 0 moveto
85 0 85 3 90 3 curveto
95 3 95 4 100 4 curveto
105 4 105 8 110 8 curveto
115 8 115 3 120 3 curveto
125 3 125 0 130 0 curveto
gsave
closepath
stroke
grestore
fill
grestore
%%EOF


enter image description here






share|improve this answer























  • Thanks so much! how do I make the height represented in color as well?

    – user1581390
    5 hours ago


















1














This type of graph is called a 'Waterfall Plot'



It can be used to plot arbitrary data in three axes (as in your example), but it is most commonly used to plot the results of a time-frequency analysis.



You mention waves/waveforms so I'm guessing you are interested in time-frequency analysis. Here is an example process to produce a waterfall plot of an audio signal:



  • start with a signal (a collection of times and amplitudes)


  • divide the signal into n equal parts



  • for each part:



    • compute the Fourier Transform to extract frequency and power


    • plot frequency vs. power as a 2D plot



  • rotate, skew and translate the plots so that they form the 3D effect in your example image


Now that you know the phrase 'waterfall plot' you can probably find some implementation in whatever software you are using to process your data. Matlab has a waterfall function exactly for this purpose.



Your options in order of preference are:



  1. Use a waterfull function provided in your software


  2. Use a 'make 2D plot in 3D space' function provided in your software


  3. Make a bunch of regular 2D plots and manually arrange them in some program like Inkscape or Illustrator


You will almost certainly need to do some post-processing in Inkscape or Illustrator to get something as attractive as your example.



Here is an example of a waterfall plot that I generated in Matlab. I used the "make 2D plots located in 3D space" method because I wanted extra customisations.



Example of waterfall plot generated in Matlab






share|improve this answer








New contributor




Robin Georg is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.



























    0














    For decorative purposes you draw one manually.



    enter image description here



    The red frame is a mold to get equally wide subgraphs. I have made a few blue copies of it and with the pencil I drew a few curves. Be sure that the curve nowhere turns back to left.



    The areas can be filled with the shape builder:



    enter image description here



    NOTE1: You can double the production rate if you have a rectangle as your mold. Only remember to flip the upper halves.



    NOTE2: Select from tool options how much the pencil smooths your drawing. If you want polylines with corners, you can click with the pen instead of using the pencil



    Select all filled areas, copy them to the clipboard, delete the mold remnants and paste the filled areas back. Align them, remove possible strokes:



    enter image description here



    Make a gradient and fill all with it:



    enter image description here



    Take the Shear tool and skew the shapes. Hold shift to prevent rotation.



    enter image description here



    Make a placement guide for the shapes and place them. I drew a line, applied a couple of times Object > Path > Add Anchors to it. That duplicated the anchor points twice and inserted them with equal spacing. I placed the corners of the shapes on the anchors:



    enter image description here



    Have smart guides and snap to points ON, select a shape, drag the corner with the direct selection tool, it snaps and the rest of the shape follows.



    Use a common shearing angle, you need it to make texts. I believe traditional isometric shearing is a good choice.






    share|improve this answer

























      Your Answer








      StackExchange.ready(function()
      var channelOptions =
      tags: "".split(" "),
      id: "174"
      ;
      initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

      StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function()
      // Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
      if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled)
      StackExchange.using("snippets", function()
      createEditor();
      );

      else
      createEditor();

      );

      function createEditor()
      StackExchange.prepareEditor(
      heartbeatType: 'answer',
      autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
      convertImagesToLinks: false,
      noModals: true,
      showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
      reputationToPostImages: null,
      bindNavPrevention: true,
      postfix: "",
      imageUploader:
      brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
      contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
      allowUrls: true
      ,
      onDemand: true,
      discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
      ,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
      );



      );






      user1581390 is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.









      draft saved

      draft discarded


















      StackExchange.ready(
      function ()
      StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fgraphicdesign.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f122660%2fhow-to-make-a-beautiful-stacked-3d-plot%23new-answer', 'question_page');

      );

      Post as a guest















      Required, but never shown

























      4 Answers
      4






      active

      oldest

      votes








      4 Answers
      4






      active

      oldest

      votes









      active

      oldest

      votes






      active

      oldest

      votes









      4














      Scaling law



      The name in its original publication from WIRED magazine



      enter image description here



      The scaling-law definition according to sciencedirect.com




      Scaling laws are relations between physical quantities in which all the physical quantities appear in terms of powers, whereby a power of x is expressed in the form xα where α is a real number.




      and




      The scaling laws for 2D geometry can be extended into three-dimensional (3D) case





      About how to make something similar, I think it's a mix of charts made in an application that allows a graphic representation by data dump plus a montage in a vector program to generate the isometric perspective and data/references adding.



      In a practical way, I could tell you if I had to make that poster, I would ask all the charts to assemble the design in Illustrator. The original image looks too neat to have been made in a program that is not vector drawing:



      enter image description here






      share|improve this answer

























      • A scaling law is a mathematical relationship between variables. It is not the name of this form of visualisation, which could represent variables connected in many other ways (for example, each series could represent a density plot or simple histogram). These sorts of charts have recently been termed ridgeplots or (briefly) joyplots in the data science world: serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots Non-3d examples here: google.com/#tbm=isch&q=ridgeplot or as an another answer here suggests, waterfall plots.

        – Michael MacAskill
        52 mins ago
















      4














      Scaling law



      The name in its original publication from WIRED magazine



      enter image description here



      The scaling-law definition according to sciencedirect.com




      Scaling laws are relations between physical quantities in which all the physical quantities appear in terms of powers, whereby a power of x is expressed in the form xα where α is a real number.




      and




      The scaling laws for 2D geometry can be extended into three-dimensional (3D) case





      About how to make something similar, I think it's a mix of charts made in an application that allows a graphic representation by data dump plus a montage in a vector program to generate the isometric perspective and data/references adding.



      In a practical way, I could tell you if I had to make that poster, I would ask all the charts to assemble the design in Illustrator. The original image looks too neat to have been made in a program that is not vector drawing:



      enter image description here






      share|improve this answer

























      • A scaling law is a mathematical relationship between variables. It is not the name of this form of visualisation, which could represent variables connected in many other ways (for example, each series could represent a density plot or simple histogram). These sorts of charts have recently been termed ridgeplots or (briefly) joyplots in the data science world: serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots Non-3d examples here: google.com/#tbm=isch&q=ridgeplot or as an another answer here suggests, waterfall plots.

        – Michael MacAskill
        52 mins ago














      4












      4








      4







      Scaling law



      The name in its original publication from WIRED magazine



      enter image description here



      The scaling-law definition according to sciencedirect.com




      Scaling laws are relations between physical quantities in which all the physical quantities appear in terms of powers, whereby a power of x is expressed in the form xα where α is a real number.




      and




      The scaling laws for 2D geometry can be extended into three-dimensional (3D) case





      About how to make something similar, I think it's a mix of charts made in an application that allows a graphic representation by data dump plus a montage in a vector program to generate the isometric perspective and data/references adding.



      In a practical way, I could tell you if I had to make that poster, I would ask all the charts to assemble the design in Illustrator. The original image looks too neat to have been made in a program that is not vector drawing:



      enter image description here






      share|improve this answer















      Scaling law



      The name in its original publication from WIRED magazine



      enter image description here



      The scaling-law definition according to sciencedirect.com




      Scaling laws are relations between physical quantities in which all the physical quantities appear in terms of powers, whereby a power of x is expressed in the form xα where α is a real number.




      and




      The scaling laws for 2D geometry can be extended into three-dimensional (3D) case





      About how to make something similar, I think it's a mix of charts made in an application that allows a graphic representation by data dump plus a montage in a vector program to generate the isometric perspective and data/references adding.



      In a practical way, I could tell you if I had to make that poster, I would ask all the charts to assemble the design in Illustrator. The original image looks too neat to have been made in a program that is not vector drawing:



      enter image description here







      share|improve this answer














      share|improve this answer



      share|improve this answer








      edited 9 hours ago

























      answered 10 hours ago









      DanielilloDanielillo

      24.9k13583




      24.9k13583












      • A scaling law is a mathematical relationship between variables. It is not the name of this form of visualisation, which could represent variables connected in many other ways (for example, each series could represent a density plot or simple histogram). These sorts of charts have recently been termed ridgeplots or (briefly) joyplots in the data science world: serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots Non-3d examples here: google.com/#tbm=isch&q=ridgeplot or as an another answer here suggests, waterfall plots.

        – Michael MacAskill
        52 mins ago


















      • A scaling law is a mathematical relationship between variables. It is not the name of this form of visualisation, which could represent variables connected in many other ways (for example, each series could represent a density plot or simple histogram). These sorts of charts have recently been termed ridgeplots or (briefly) joyplots in the data science world: serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots Non-3d examples here: google.com/#tbm=isch&q=ridgeplot or as an another answer here suggests, waterfall plots.

        – Michael MacAskill
        52 mins ago

















      A scaling law is a mathematical relationship between variables. It is not the name of this form of visualisation, which could represent variables connected in many other ways (for example, each series could represent a density plot or simple histogram). These sorts of charts have recently been termed ridgeplots or (briefly) joyplots in the data science world: serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots Non-3d examples here: google.com/#tbm=isch&q=ridgeplot or as an another answer here suggests, waterfall plots.

      – Michael MacAskill
      52 mins ago






      A scaling law is a mathematical relationship between variables. It is not the name of this form of visualisation, which could represent variables connected in many other ways (for example, each series could represent a density plot or simple histogram). These sorts of charts have recently been termed ridgeplots or (briefly) joyplots in the data science world: serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots Non-3d examples here: google.com/#tbm=isch&q=ridgeplot or as an another answer here suggests, waterfall plots.

      – Michael MacAskill
      52 mins ago












      3














      %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
      %%BoundingBox: 0 0 400 400
      %%Title: Isometric Graph Drawing
      %%Creator: Janne Ojala
      %%CreationDate: 2019-04-17
      %%EndComments

      /up dup translate def
      /down neg up def
      /isometric-bottom [30 cos 30 sin 150 cos 150 sin 0 0] concat def

      /isometric-back [30 cos 30 sin 90 cos 90 sin 0 0] concat def
      /c newpath 1 0 360 arc closepath fill def


      /Arial findfont 24 scalefont setfont

      100 160 translate
      gsave
      isometric-back
      0 0 moveto
      /FuturaStd-Medium findfont 18 scalefont setfont
      (IsoGraph) show
      grestore

      gsave
      0 1 12
      pop
      150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
      gsave
      isometric-bottom
      0 10 200 0 c for
      grestore
      for
      grestore

      150 cos -20 mul 150 sin -20 mul translate

      gsave
      isometric-back
      newpath
      50 0 moveto
      55 0 55 33 60 33 curveto
      65 33 65 12 70 12 curveto
      75 12 75 0 80 0 curveto
      85 0 85 16 90 16 curveto
      95 16 95 0 100 0 curveto
      gsave
      closepath
      stroke
      grestore
      fill
      grestore

      150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
      gsave
      isometric-back
      newpath
      80 0 moveto
      85 0 85 3 90 3 curveto
      95 3 95 4 100 4 curveto
      105 4 105 8 110 8 curveto
      115 8 115 3 120 3 curveto
      125 3 125 0 130 0 curveto
      gsave
      closepath
      stroke
      grestore
      fill
      grestore
      %%EOF


      enter image description here






      share|improve this answer























      • Thanks so much! how do I make the height represented in color as well?

        – user1581390
        5 hours ago















      3














      %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
      %%BoundingBox: 0 0 400 400
      %%Title: Isometric Graph Drawing
      %%Creator: Janne Ojala
      %%CreationDate: 2019-04-17
      %%EndComments

      /up dup translate def
      /down neg up def
      /isometric-bottom [30 cos 30 sin 150 cos 150 sin 0 0] concat def

      /isometric-back [30 cos 30 sin 90 cos 90 sin 0 0] concat def
      /c newpath 1 0 360 arc closepath fill def


      /Arial findfont 24 scalefont setfont

      100 160 translate
      gsave
      isometric-back
      0 0 moveto
      /FuturaStd-Medium findfont 18 scalefont setfont
      (IsoGraph) show
      grestore

      gsave
      0 1 12
      pop
      150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
      gsave
      isometric-bottom
      0 10 200 0 c for
      grestore
      for
      grestore

      150 cos -20 mul 150 sin -20 mul translate

      gsave
      isometric-back
      newpath
      50 0 moveto
      55 0 55 33 60 33 curveto
      65 33 65 12 70 12 curveto
      75 12 75 0 80 0 curveto
      85 0 85 16 90 16 curveto
      95 16 95 0 100 0 curveto
      gsave
      closepath
      stroke
      grestore
      fill
      grestore

      150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
      gsave
      isometric-back
      newpath
      80 0 moveto
      85 0 85 3 90 3 curveto
      95 3 95 4 100 4 curveto
      105 4 105 8 110 8 curveto
      115 8 115 3 120 3 curveto
      125 3 125 0 130 0 curveto
      gsave
      closepath
      stroke
      grestore
      fill
      grestore
      %%EOF


      enter image description here






      share|improve this answer























      • Thanks so much! how do I make the height represented in color as well?

        – user1581390
        5 hours ago













      3












      3








      3







      %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
      %%BoundingBox: 0 0 400 400
      %%Title: Isometric Graph Drawing
      %%Creator: Janne Ojala
      %%CreationDate: 2019-04-17
      %%EndComments

      /up dup translate def
      /down neg up def
      /isometric-bottom [30 cos 30 sin 150 cos 150 sin 0 0] concat def

      /isometric-back [30 cos 30 sin 90 cos 90 sin 0 0] concat def
      /c newpath 1 0 360 arc closepath fill def


      /Arial findfont 24 scalefont setfont

      100 160 translate
      gsave
      isometric-back
      0 0 moveto
      /FuturaStd-Medium findfont 18 scalefont setfont
      (IsoGraph) show
      grestore

      gsave
      0 1 12
      pop
      150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
      gsave
      isometric-bottom
      0 10 200 0 c for
      grestore
      for
      grestore

      150 cos -20 mul 150 sin -20 mul translate

      gsave
      isometric-back
      newpath
      50 0 moveto
      55 0 55 33 60 33 curveto
      65 33 65 12 70 12 curveto
      75 12 75 0 80 0 curveto
      85 0 85 16 90 16 curveto
      95 16 95 0 100 0 curveto
      gsave
      closepath
      stroke
      grestore
      fill
      grestore

      150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
      gsave
      isometric-back
      newpath
      80 0 moveto
      85 0 85 3 90 3 curveto
      95 3 95 4 100 4 curveto
      105 4 105 8 110 8 curveto
      115 8 115 3 120 3 curveto
      125 3 125 0 130 0 curveto
      gsave
      closepath
      stroke
      grestore
      fill
      grestore
      %%EOF


      enter image description here






      share|improve this answer













      %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
      %%BoundingBox: 0 0 400 400
      %%Title: Isometric Graph Drawing
      %%Creator: Janne Ojala
      %%CreationDate: 2019-04-17
      %%EndComments

      /up dup translate def
      /down neg up def
      /isometric-bottom [30 cos 30 sin 150 cos 150 sin 0 0] concat def

      /isometric-back [30 cos 30 sin 90 cos 90 sin 0 0] concat def
      /c newpath 1 0 360 arc closepath fill def


      /Arial findfont 24 scalefont setfont

      100 160 translate
      gsave
      isometric-back
      0 0 moveto
      /FuturaStd-Medium findfont 18 scalefont setfont
      (IsoGraph) show
      grestore

      gsave
      0 1 12
      pop
      150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
      gsave
      isometric-bottom
      0 10 200 0 c for
      grestore
      for
      grestore

      150 cos -20 mul 150 sin -20 mul translate

      gsave
      isometric-back
      newpath
      50 0 moveto
      55 0 55 33 60 33 curveto
      65 33 65 12 70 12 curveto
      75 12 75 0 80 0 curveto
      85 0 85 16 90 16 curveto
      95 16 95 0 100 0 curveto
      gsave
      closepath
      stroke
      grestore
      fill
      grestore

      150 cos -10 mul 150 sin -10 mul translate
      gsave
      isometric-back
      newpath
      80 0 moveto
      85 0 85 3 90 3 curveto
      95 3 95 4 100 4 curveto
      105 4 105 8 110 8 curveto
      115 8 115 3 120 3 curveto
      125 3 125 0 130 0 curveto
      gsave
      closepath
      stroke
      grestore
      fill
      grestore
      %%EOF


      enter image description here







      share|improve this answer












      share|improve this answer



      share|improve this answer










      answered 8 hours ago









      joojaajoojaa

      43k668123




      43k668123












      • Thanks so much! how do I make the height represented in color as well?

        – user1581390
        5 hours ago

















      • Thanks so much! how do I make the height represented in color as well?

        – user1581390
        5 hours ago
















      Thanks so much! how do I make the height represented in color as well?

      – user1581390
      5 hours ago





      Thanks so much! how do I make the height represented in color as well?

      – user1581390
      5 hours ago











      1














      This type of graph is called a 'Waterfall Plot'



      It can be used to plot arbitrary data in three axes (as in your example), but it is most commonly used to plot the results of a time-frequency analysis.



      You mention waves/waveforms so I'm guessing you are interested in time-frequency analysis. Here is an example process to produce a waterfall plot of an audio signal:



      • start with a signal (a collection of times and amplitudes)


      • divide the signal into n equal parts



      • for each part:



        • compute the Fourier Transform to extract frequency and power


        • plot frequency vs. power as a 2D plot



      • rotate, skew and translate the plots so that they form the 3D effect in your example image


      Now that you know the phrase 'waterfall plot' you can probably find some implementation in whatever software you are using to process your data. Matlab has a waterfall function exactly for this purpose.



      Your options in order of preference are:



      1. Use a waterfull function provided in your software


      2. Use a 'make 2D plot in 3D space' function provided in your software


      3. Make a bunch of regular 2D plots and manually arrange them in some program like Inkscape or Illustrator


      You will almost certainly need to do some post-processing in Inkscape or Illustrator to get something as attractive as your example.



      Here is an example of a waterfall plot that I generated in Matlab. I used the "make 2D plots located in 3D space" method because I wanted extra customisations.



      Example of waterfall plot generated in Matlab






      share|improve this answer








      New contributor




      Robin Georg is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
      Check out our Code of Conduct.
























        1














        This type of graph is called a 'Waterfall Plot'



        It can be used to plot arbitrary data in three axes (as in your example), but it is most commonly used to plot the results of a time-frequency analysis.



        You mention waves/waveforms so I'm guessing you are interested in time-frequency analysis. Here is an example process to produce a waterfall plot of an audio signal:



        • start with a signal (a collection of times and amplitudes)


        • divide the signal into n equal parts



        • for each part:



          • compute the Fourier Transform to extract frequency and power


          • plot frequency vs. power as a 2D plot



        • rotate, skew and translate the plots so that they form the 3D effect in your example image


        Now that you know the phrase 'waterfall plot' you can probably find some implementation in whatever software you are using to process your data. Matlab has a waterfall function exactly for this purpose.



        Your options in order of preference are:



        1. Use a waterfull function provided in your software


        2. Use a 'make 2D plot in 3D space' function provided in your software


        3. Make a bunch of regular 2D plots and manually arrange them in some program like Inkscape or Illustrator


        You will almost certainly need to do some post-processing in Inkscape or Illustrator to get something as attractive as your example.



        Here is an example of a waterfall plot that I generated in Matlab. I used the "make 2D plots located in 3D space" method because I wanted extra customisations.



        Example of waterfall plot generated in Matlab






        share|improve this answer








        New contributor




        Robin Georg is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
        Check out our Code of Conduct.






















          1












          1








          1







          This type of graph is called a 'Waterfall Plot'



          It can be used to plot arbitrary data in three axes (as in your example), but it is most commonly used to plot the results of a time-frequency analysis.



          You mention waves/waveforms so I'm guessing you are interested in time-frequency analysis. Here is an example process to produce a waterfall plot of an audio signal:



          • start with a signal (a collection of times and amplitudes)


          • divide the signal into n equal parts



          • for each part:



            • compute the Fourier Transform to extract frequency and power


            • plot frequency vs. power as a 2D plot



          • rotate, skew and translate the plots so that they form the 3D effect in your example image


          Now that you know the phrase 'waterfall plot' you can probably find some implementation in whatever software you are using to process your data. Matlab has a waterfall function exactly for this purpose.



          Your options in order of preference are:



          1. Use a waterfull function provided in your software


          2. Use a 'make 2D plot in 3D space' function provided in your software


          3. Make a bunch of regular 2D plots and manually arrange them in some program like Inkscape or Illustrator


          You will almost certainly need to do some post-processing in Inkscape or Illustrator to get something as attractive as your example.



          Here is an example of a waterfall plot that I generated in Matlab. I used the "make 2D plots located in 3D space" method because I wanted extra customisations.



          Example of waterfall plot generated in Matlab






          share|improve this answer








          New contributor




          Robin Georg is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
          Check out our Code of Conduct.










          This type of graph is called a 'Waterfall Plot'



          It can be used to plot arbitrary data in three axes (as in your example), but it is most commonly used to plot the results of a time-frequency analysis.



          You mention waves/waveforms so I'm guessing you are interested in time-frequency analysis. Here is an example process to produce a waterfall plot of an audio signal:



          • start with a signal (a collection of times and amplitudes)


          • divide the signal into n equal parts



          • for each part:



            • compute the Fourier Transform to extract frequency and power


            • plot frequency vs. power as a 2D plot



          • rotate, skew and translate the plots so that they form the 3D effect in your example image


          Now that you know the phrase 'waterfall plot' you can probably find some implementation in whatever software you are using to process your data. Matlab has a waterfall function exactly for this purpose.



          Your options in order of preference are:



          1. Use a waterfull function provided in your software


          2. Use a 'make 2D plot in 3D space' function provided in your software


          3. Make a bunch of regular 2D plots and manually arrange them in some program like Inkscape or Illustrator


          You will almost certainly need to do some post-processing in Inkscape or Illustrator to get something as attractive as your example.



          Here is an example of a waterfall plot that I generated in Matlab. I used the "make 2D plots located in 3D space" method because I wanted extra customisations.



          Example of waterfall plot generated in Matlab







          share|improve this answer








          New contributor




          Robin Georg is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
          Check out our Code of Conduct.









          share|improve this answer



          share|improve this answer






          New contributor




          Robin Georg is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
          Check out our Code of Conduct.









          answered 1 hour ago









          Robin GeorgRobin Georg

          111




          111




          New contributor




          Robin Georg is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
          Check out our Code of Conduct.





          New contributor





          Robin Georg is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
          Check out our Code of Conduct.






          Robin Georg is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
          Check out our Code of Conduct.





















              0














              For decorative purposes you draw one manually.



              enter image description here



              The red frame is a mold to get equally wide subgraphs. I have made a few blue copies of it and with the pencil I drew a few curves. Be sure that the curve nowhere turns back to left.



              The areas can be filled with the shape builder:



              enter image description here



              NOTE1: You can double the production rate if you have a rectangle as your mold. Only remember to flip the upper halves.



              NOTE2: Select from tool options how much the pencil smooths your drawing. If you want polylines with corners, you can click with the pen instead of using the pencil



              Select all filled areas, copy them to the clipboard, delete the mold remnants and paste the filled areas back. Align them, remove possible strokes:



              enter image description here



              Make a gradient and fill all with it:



              enter image description here



              Take the Shear tool and skew the shapes. Hold shift to prevent rotation.



              enter image description here



              Make a placement guide for the shapes and place them. I drew a line, applied a couple of times Object > Path > Add Anchors to it. That duplicated the anchor points twice and inserted them with equal spacing. I placed the corners of the shapes on the anchors:



              enter image description here



              Have smart guides and snap to points ON, select a shape, drag the corner with the direct selection tool, it snaps and the rest of the shape follows.



              Use a common shearing angle, you need it to make texts. I believe traditional isometric shearing is a good choice.






              share|improve this answer





























                0














                For decorative purposes you draw one manually.



                enter image description here



                The red frame is a mold to get equally wide subgraphs. I have made a few blue copies of it and with the pencil I drew a few curves. Be sure that the curve nowhere turns back to left.



                The areas can be filled with the shape builder:



                enter image description here



                NOTE1: You can double the production rate if you have a rectangle as your mold. Only remember to flip the upper halves.



                NOTE2: Select from tool options how much the pencil smooths your drawing. If you want polylines with corners, you can click with the pen instead of using the pencil



                Select all filled areas, copy them to the clipboard, delete the mold remnants and paste the filled areas back. Align them, remove possible strokes:



                enter image description here



                Make a gradient and fill all with it:



                enter image description here



                Take the Shear tool and skew the shapes. Hold shift to prevent rotation.



                enter image description here



                Make a placement guide for the shapes and place them. I drew a line, applied a couple of times Object > Path > Add Anchors to it. That duplicated the anchor points twice and inserted them with equal spacing. I placed the corners of the shapes on the anchors:



                enter image description here



                Have smart guides and snap to points ON, select a shape, drag the corner with the direct selection tool, it snaps and the rest of the shape follows.



                Use a common shearing angle, you need it to make texts. I believe traditional isometric shearing is a good choice.






                share|improve this answer



























                  0












                  0








                  0







                  For decorative purposes you draw one manually.



                  enter image description here



                  The red frame is a mold to get equally wide subgraphs. I have made a few blue copies of it and with the pencil I drew a few curves. Be sure that the curve nowhere turns back to left.



                  The areas can be filled with the shape builder:



                  enter image description here



                  NOTE1: You can double the production rate if you have a rectangle as your mold. Only remember to flip the upper halves.



                  NOTE2: Select from tool options how much the pencil smooths your drawing. If you want polylines with corners, you can click with the pen instead of using the pencil



                  Select all filled areas, copy them to the clipboard, delete the mold remnants and paste the filled areas back. Align them, remove possible strokes:



                  enter image description here



                  Make a gradient and fill all with it:



                  enter image description here



                  Take the Shear tool and skew the shapes. Hold shift to prevent rotation.



                  enter image description here



                  Make a placement guide for the shapes and place them. I drew a line, applied a couple of times Object > Path > Add Anchors to it. That duplicated the anchor points twice and inserted them with equal spacing. I placed the corners of the shapes on the anchors:



                  enter image description here



                  Have smart guides and snap to points ON, select a shape, drag the corner with the direct selection tool, it snaps and the rest of the shape follows.



                  Use a common shearing angle, you need it to make texts. I believe traditional isometric shearing is a good choice.






                  share|improve this answer















                  For decorative purposes you draw one manually.



                  enter image description here



                  The red frame is a mold to get equally wide subgraphs. I have made a few blue copies of it and with the pencil I drew a few curves. Be sure that the curve nowhere turns back to left.



                  The areas can be filled with the shape builder:



                  enter image description here



                  NOTE1: You can double the production rate if you have a rectangle as your mold. Only remember to flip the upper halves.



                  NOTE2: Select from tool options how much the pencil smooths your drawing. If you want polylines with corners, you can click with the pen instead of using the pencil



                  Select all filled areas, copy them to the clipboard, delete the mold remnants and paste the filled areas back. Align them, remove possible strokes:



                  enter image description here



                  Make a gradient and fill all with it:



                  enter image description here



                  Take the Shear tool and skew the shapes. Hold shift to prevent rotation.



                  enter image description here



                  Make a placement guide for the shapes and place them. I drew a line, applied a couple of times Object > Path > Add Anchors to it. That duplicated the anchor points twice and inserted them with equal spacing. I placed the corners of the shapes on the anchors:



                  enter image description here



                  Have smart guides and snap to points ON, select a shape, drag the corner with the direct selection tool, it snaps and the rest of the shape follows.



                  Use a common shearing angle, you need it to make texts. I believe traditional isometric shearing is a good choice.







                  share|improve this answer














                  share|improve this answer



                  share|improve this answer








                  edited 4 hours ago

























                  answered 4 hours ago









                  user287001user287001

                  24.4k21339




                  24.4k21339




















                      user1581390 is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.









                      draft saved

                      draft discarded


















                      user1581390 is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.












                      user1581390 is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.











                      user1581390 is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.














                      Thanks for contributing an answer to Graphic Design Stack Exchange!


                      • Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!

                      But avoid


                      • Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.

                      • Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.

                      To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.




                      draft saved


                      draft discarded














                      StackExchange.ready(
                      function ()
                      StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fgraphicdesign.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f122660%2fhow-to-make-a-beautiful-stacked-3d-plot%23new-answer', 'question_page');

                      );

                      Post as a guest















                      Required, but never shown





















































                      Required, but never shown














                      Required, but never shown












                      Required, but never shown







                      Required, but never shown

































                      Required, but never shown














                      Required, but never shown












                      Required, but never shown







                      Required, but never shown







                      Popular posts from this blog

                      How to create a command for the “strange m” symbol in latex? Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30pm US/Eastern)How do you make your own symbol when Detexify fails?Writing bold small caps with mathpazo packageplus-minus symbol with parenthesis around the minus signGreek character in Beamer document titleHow to create dashed right arrow over symbol?Currency symbol: Turkish LiraDouble prec as a single symbol?Plus Sign Too Big; How to Call adfbullet?Is there a TeX macro for three-legged pi?How do I get my integral-like symbol to align like the integral?How to selectively substitute a letter with another symbol representing the same letterHow do I generate a less than symbol and vertical bar that are the same height?

                      Българска екзархия Съдържание История | Български екзарси | Вижте също | Външни препратки | Литература | Бележки | НавигацияУстав за управлението на българската екзархия. Цариград, 1870Слово на Ловешкия митрополит Иларион при откриването на Българския народен събор в Цариград на 23. II. 1870 г.Българската правда и гръцката кривда. От С. М. (= Софийски Мелетий). Цариград, 1872Предстоятели на Българската екзархияПодмененият ВеликденИнформационна агенция „Фокус“Димитър Ризов. Българите в техните исторически, етнографически и политически граници (Атлас съдържащ 40 карти). Berlin, Königliche Hoflithographie, Hof-Buch- und -Steindruckerei Wilhelm Greve, 1917Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars

                      Чепеларе Съдържание География | История | Население | Спортни и природни забележителности | Културни и исторически обекти | Религии | Обществени институции | Известни личности | Редовни събития | Галерия | Източници | Литература | Външни препратки | Навигация41°43′23.99″ с. ш. 24°41′09.99″ и. д. / 41.723333° с. ш. 24.686111° и. д.*ЧепелареЧепеларски Linux fest 2002Начало на Зимен сезон 2005/06Национални хайдушки празници „Капитан Петко Войвода“Град ЧепелареЧепеларе – народният ски курортbgrod.orgwww.terranatura.hit.bgСправка за населението на гр. Исперих, общ. Исперих, обл. РазградМузей на родопския карстМузей на спорта и скитеЧепеларебългарскибългарскианглийскитукИстория на градаСки писти в ЧепелареВремето в ЧепелареРадио и телевизия в ЧепелареЧепеларе мами с родопски чар и добри пистиЕвтин туризъм и снежни атракции в ЧепелареМестоположениеИнформация и снимки от музея на родопския карст3D панорами от ЧепелареЧепелареррр