I need some tips for displaying 3d data

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Liam
Liam on 3 Dec 2014
I have a 3d array of size x by y by z and I need to find a good way of visualizing it on paper. The values in z are probability distributions and fairly smooth. Y and X are the locations of the probability distributions.
I think what I need is something similar to a bar3 graph where the bars are set to be quite thin but each bar is coloured based on the values of z. i.e. there would be x*y number of bars, each with gradient colour for the corresponding z.
Alternatively I could do something with a 3d stem plot but for each stem have multiple markers placed with the distance between markers representing the value of z (giving the impression of density).
It is not important to be able to read off values from these plots, I am expecting much of the data to be obscured - but I do want to convey a general feel of how the data is arranged.
I am pretty confident that I can figure out how to make these myself but before I invest the time I was wondering if anyone had any better ideas? Is there anything clever I could do using different alphas? Do you think the plots are going to look too busy to be printed on paper? Does anyone have any examples of similar things?
Thanks

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