I’m having some problems setting the surfacecolor in a 3D surface plot to be different from the z values. I’d like to use the surface plot to effectively show 4 dimensions: x, y, z, and the color.
The color should be mapped to the absolute value of z, meaning the peaks (both at positive and negative z) will have the highest color value.
Can anyone provide some help?
Here is a example of some code.:
library(plotly)
n=50
x = seq(from=1, to=20, length.out = n)
y = seq(from=30, to=40, length.out = n)
z = matrix(0, ncol=n, nrow=n)
for (i in 1:n) {
for (j in 1:n) {
z[i,j] = sin(x[i])*cos(y[j])
colorMat[i,j] = abs(z[i,j])
}
}
plot_ly(z=z, x=x, y=y, type = “surface”,
surfacecolor=colorMat
)