R help - Aug 2004 - Adding 3D points

I would like to add individual points and lines to a persp() 
plot that I generated with the geoR package. It is a kriged 
surface map of a field plot and I'd like to overlay my 
sampling points on it but am having some trouble. I loaded 
the scatterplot3d package, but I can't seem to use the add 
parameter with it. Any suggestions?

<dhirm001 at student.ucr.edu> wrote:
> I would like to add individual points and lines to a persp() plot that I
> generated with the geoR package.
See example (2) in ?persp.  You must define this function:
  trans3d <- function(x,y,z, pmat) {
    tr <- cbind(x,y,z,1) %*% pmat
    list(x = tr[,1]/tr[,4], y= tr[,2]/tr[,4])
  }

Then you must assign the result of your persp() call to "pmat", e.g.:
R> x <- y <- seq(-10, 10, length = 50)
R> f <- function(x, y) {r <- sqrt(x^2+y^2); 10 * ifelse(r==0, 1,
sin(r)/r)}
R> z <- outer(x, y, f)
R> pmat <- persp(x, y, z, theta=30, phi=30, expand=.5,
col="lightblue",
+          xlab="X", ylab="Y", zlab="Z",
ticktype="detailed")

And then you can add points and lines:
R> points(trans3d(0,0,f(0,0),pmat))
R> z2 <- sapply(1:length(x),function(n)f(x[n],y[n]))
R> lines(trans3d(x,y,z2,pmat),col="red",lwd=2)
R> lines(trans3d(c(-10,10,10,-10,-10),c(-10,-10,10,10,-10),c(2,2,8,8,2),
pmat),
+        col="blue")

All hail to Ben Bolker, who kindly taught me this in March 2002.
-- 
                              -- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu)