How to plot a set of densities in 3D using R?

Question

I need to plot, in 3D, a set of densities associated to a time series. More precisely, I would like to be able in R to build an image close to this example

This image is taken from [1]. The transparency plays an important role as let us see the trajectory of the "measures" in the x-y plane.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[1]: Juban and Kariniotakis, "Uncertainty Estimation of Wind Power Forecasts", presentation at EWEC 2008 - 01 April - Brussels, Belgium. (I can't post the link, google will help interested readers).

Answer 1

In 1996 I wrote a paper (published in JCGS) with a figure very similar to that but without the transparency. See http://robjhyndman.com/papers/estimating-and-visualizing-conditional-densities/ for the details. The plotting function is implemented in the R package hdrcde available on CRAN. The package contains some examples in the help files. You should be able to adapt my code to add the transparency.

Answer 2

This is pretty, but is it really useful? Even with the transparency, it is very hard to track and compare different trajectories.

Answer 3

This is how far I got thanks to Rob's hint. I used persp() to create an empty plot and added polygons and lines to it:

However, it is not as pretty as the original one... :(