Surfacecolor and ColorScale

[rudi8292]

Task : Need to color the surface based on the a different parameter than z axis values.

What i have tried till now.

Figure Reference

plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/test/image/mocks/gl3d_surface_intensity.json

Question : Does the number of elements in the 2D array representing the Surfacecolor should be equal to the number of array elements for the z axis ?

As for example if i remove 1 arrray from the following example,

plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/test/image/mocks/gl3d_surface_intensity.json

the plot doesnt get generated.

Need a brief explanation about the surfacecolor and colorscale
More examples would also help.

My final Task is that i have 5 categories and i need to color the surface independent of Z axis and the 5 categories should be of different colors!.

[etienne]

@rudi8292

Question : Does the number of elements in the 2D array representing the Surfacecolor should be equal to the number of array elements for the z axis ?

Yes. surfacecolor intends to map each item z to a color.