R: Plotting a 3D surface from x, y, z

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If your x and y coords are not on a grid then you need to interpolate your x,y,z surface onto one. You can do this with kriging using any of the geostatistics packages (geoR, gstat, others) or simpler techniques such as inverse distance weighting.

I’m guessing the ‘interp’ function you mention is from the akima package. Note that the output matrix is independent of the size of your input points. You could have 10000 points in your input and interpolate that onto a 10×10 grid if you wanted. By default akima::interp does it onto a 40×40 grid:

require(akima)
require(rgl)

x = runif(1000)
y = runif(1000)
z = rnorm(1000)
s = interp(x,y,z)
> dim(s$z)
[1] 40 40
surface3d(s$x,s$y,s$z)

That’ll look spiky and rubbish because its random data. Hopefully your data isnt!

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