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I'm trying to plot 3D graph with Asymptote. I used a previous post as guidance.

I have well structred X and Y and Z values in 2 files. One with x and y variables and the other file with z matrix. All computations are performed using R. I'm only using Asymptote for plotting.

Below is the Asymptote code that was tried so far:

import three;
import grid3;
import graph3;
import palette;

unitsize(5cm,5cm,5cm);
currentprojection=orthographic(18,17,3);

bool renderPRC = true; 

if(renderPRC) { ...
    // PRC TRUE
    settings.prc=true;
    settings.embed=true;
}
else {
    // RASTERIZE
    settings.outformat="png";
    settings.prc=false;
    settings.render=3;
}

file fic =input("xy_new.csv").line().csv(); 
file fic1 =input("z_new.csv").line().csv();

real[][] z=fic1.dimension(0,100);
real[][] a=fic.dimension(0,2);
real [][] b=transpose(a);

real [] xpt,ypt;
xpt = b[1];
ypt = b[0];
real[][] zpt=-z;

surface s=surface(zpt,xpt,ypt,Spline);
s.colors(palette(s.map(zpart),Rainbow()));
draw(s);

The output that I get is not a 3D file.

enter image description here

I'm expecting something like this:

enter image description here

The above plot was produced using the following R function with same x,y and z values:

plot3D::persp3D(x = x, y = y, z = -1*z, col="grey87",cex.axis=1, cex.lab=1,
        colkey=FALSE, theta=-30,alpha = 1,zlim=c(-500,-240),ylim=c(0.2,5),
        border = "grey50", ticktype="detailed",scale=T,
        contour=list(levels = -1*c(240,242.09,242.3,242.8,243,244,245,246,247,247.5,247.8),side ="z",col="grey39"),
        xlab="$\\sigma$",ylab="$\\xi$", zlab="Log Likelihood",
        lty=0,expand = 0.7)

I have 2 part question:

  1. Why is my Asymptote plot not in 3d?
  2. How can I draw contour on top of surface plot?
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  • What else can I do to improve my post? Greatly appreciate any feedback. Thankd
    – forecaster
    Jan 6, 2022 at 5:56

1 Answer 1

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+100

Sorry for late, but it is very difficult to have free time and then to contribute on Asymptote question.

Your main problem is unitsize and the difference between x, y, z, ranges. It is why you have such a picture. You then have two possibilitues : modify unitsize or use size3 with IgnoreAspect (which avoids automatic scaling). I also add the contour question.

import grid3;
import graph3;
import palette;
import contour; 
import x11colors; 
//unitsize(2cm,.002cm,.05cm);
size3(300,300,IgnoreAspect);

currentprojection=orthographic(18,17,3);

currentprojection=orthographic(camera=(-15.2232850051446,-32914.6837071317,892.991504793621),
                               zoom=0.822702474791882);

file fic =input("xy_new.csv").line().csv(); 
file fic1 =input("z_new.csv").line().csv();

real[][] z=fic1.dimension(0,100);
real[][] a=fic.dimension(0,2);
real [][] b=transpose(a);

real [] xpt,ypt;
xpt = b[1];
ypt = b[0];
real[][] zpt=-z;

surface s=surface(zpt,xpt,ypt,Spline);
s.colors(palette(s.map(zpart),Rainbow()));
draw(s);


for (int i=0; i<10 ; ++i)
  { real t = -250+i; 
    guide[][] contours = contour(zpt,(0.2,100),(5,5000),new real[]{t},join=operator ..);
    guide3[][] liftedcontours = lift(new real (real x, real y) {return t;}, contours);
    for(guide3 p:liftedcontours[0]){
      draw(p,blue+1bp);
    }
  }

xaxis3(Label("$x$",.1),Bounds,InTicks);
yaxis3(Label("$y$",0.5),Bounds,InTicks);
zaxis3(Label("$z$",0.5),Bounds,InTicks(beginlabel=false));

And then the resultenter image description here

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  • Thanks so much for taking time to respond, ignore aspect ratio is the key. I figured it out last week. One additional question, is there a way to label the conours?
    – forecaster
    Jan 11, 2022 at 16:08
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    Perhaps it is possible to add colours/legend for a few contours. Do you have an idea of the desired 3D-pictures. In front of the 3D, another possibility is to add a 2D contour with legends...
    – O.G.
    Jan 11, 2022 at 16:22
  • Add 2D contour on the side of the picture with labels is preferred. Label directly on the contour. Thank you.
    – forecaster
    Jan 11, 2022 at 17:09

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