R help - Nov 2003 - R-Project: Graphic/3-D capabilites and information...

Greetings, and Salutations to the wonderful people of the R-Project!!!

I have a question:

       There is are images on the Screenshots page of the r-project home ::

        http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/screenshots.html

There are THREE (3) images in particular I am interested in, that also 
pertain to this e-mail:

    http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/icon-persp-surface.jpg
    http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/volcano-image.jpg
    http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/volcano-persp.jpg

The http://www.r-project.org/screenshots/icon-persp-surface.jpg image is 
the one I am interested in the most, however, I would like to have 
information regarding all of them...

Information I would like to have would be:

    How were these images created (step by step with explanations if 
possible)
   
    What utilities, plugins, or data were used to create these images
     
    Tutorials, FAQs, or ANY and ALL information I would need to be able 
to understand how I can create images like these from my data, and how I 
can interpret images like these (what do they mean, how do you read the 
image...), because all graphics are representations of mathematical 
functions (all meaning ALL, even a picture in PhotoShop is a 
mathematical function)...

Many Thanks In Advance to the Kind peoples whom helped me find, and 
understand the information I requested!!!

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:25:12 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings, and Salutations to the wonderful people of the R-Project!!!
>
>I have a question:
>
>       There is are images on the Screenshots page of the r-project home ::
 ...
>Information I would like to have would be:
>
>    How were these images created (step by step with explanations if 
>possible)
>   
>    What utilities, plugins, or data were used to create these images
They look very similar to the examples produced by example(persp) and
example(image).  No extras needed.  
   
>    Tutorials, FAQs, or ANY and ALL information I would need to be able 
>to understand how I can create images like these from my data, and how I 
>can interpret images like these (what do they mean, how do you read the 
>image...), because all graphics are representations of mathematical 
>functions (all meaning ALL, even a picture in PhotoShop is a 
>mathematical function)...
I don't know of FAQs, but there are lots of books on statistical
graphics, and many of them include sections on visualizing 3D data.
For example, Visualizing Data by Cleveland.

Duncan Murdoch