Response surface mesh and 3D contour plot

Question

Hello,

does anybody know, if it is possible to create a Response surface mesh and 3D contoour plot in JMP. If it is, how can I do that? I added two pictures, to better ilustrate what I have in mind.

Response surface mesh

3D contour plot

Is there any better way to present a response which is dependent on three factors in one plot? I first presented the relation with 9 surface plots (3 for every combination of 2 factors, the third factor has always a different value (-1,0,1)), which is a very clear presentation in my opinion but it takes a lot of space and can hide the general picture because it is too segmented. I was also thinking about cube plot, but it hides a lot of information, especially, because I have one quadratic effect...

Thank you in advance,

Danijel

Danijel_V · Answer

Hi,

unfortunately no, however, when you think about it there is a reason that JMP or other statistical softwares doesn't offer possibility to create 4D plot, since it is a very unclear presentation. My advice would be to stick to 2D charts when possible, since we are ussually presenting charts on 2D surface, when neccessary use 3D.

MikeDereviankin · Answer

Hi,

Did you end up getting an answer for this? I'm in the same boat trying to make the graphic 4D to represent a color contour.

Danijel_V · Answer

Thank you for elaborate answer. I think I will stay with 9 response surface graphs.

I still didn't get the answer for my first question though. I already know the 3D profiler, but I actualy want to make it 4D. I want that values of factors to determine the location of points (like 3D coordinates) and that I then colour the points, where the colour of the points represents the response (for example red for high values, blue for low). Than I would do a contour instead of points. Is there any way to colout the points in the way I described?