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Thanks for all the inspirations guys.

What I've settled on is a pseudo-3D field, with tridents (3-point stars or crosses) with the length of each point representing one of the outputs: thus.

The inputs (axes) were obvious candidates for log2 scaling.

I tried various methods of reducing the range of the values; and settled upon the simple 'difference from minimum' as giving the best visual representation of the relative values, whilst minimising clutter.

By aligning the three star points with the x, y & z axes, it made it easy to visually distinguish aligned points in 3D, without the need to add extended ticks or grid lines, which tend to clutter the graph.

I did consider adding a line or curve connecting the end points of the tridents in each plane; but I couldn't wrap my head around how to code that.

Once again, thanks to all who responded.


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