Plotting the column, pie, donut, and scatter series in 3D charts

In this section, we will plot a gallery of column, pie, donut, and scatter series which are currently supported for 3D presentation. We will also examine the 3D options specific to each series. Some of the examples used here are taken from previous chapters.

3D columns in stacked and multiple series

Let's start with a multi-series stacked column chart embedded with the options3d setting:

                options3d: {
                    alpha: 10,
                    beta: 30,
                    enabled: true
                }

Here is what a multi-series grouped and stacked 3D columns chart looks like:

Column depth and Z-padding

Notice from the preceding chart, the sides of the UK/Germany stacked columns are covered by the S. Korea/Japan columns. Suppose that we want to show part of the sides of the UK/Germany columns. In order to do that, we can reduce the thickness of the S. Korea/Japan columns with the plotOptions.column.depth...