3D Options Chart

A 3D Options Chart is a type of 3D charts used primarily in financial modeling.
Overview
Financial options positions have its own unique risk profiles that are different from stock positions in that they are usually non-linear and they exist in a four dimensional 'space' - asset price, time to expiration, volatilities and one of greeks such as Gamma, Delta, Theta, Vega. In order to fully understand the behaviour of an options strategy, an options trader prefers to look at the trading position in its space. a picture is worth a thousand words. It is easier for options traders to reconstruct these four dimensions from a 3D representation than from sevral 2D diagrams. A 3D chart helps traders identify an options positions' risk/reward with one glance.
Example
For example, in a butterfly strategy, a 2D chart usually shows profile of a position either at expiration or at beginning, sometime show both in the same chart with two lines, while a 3D chart will show both beginning profile and expiration profile, along with profiles for any positions in bewteen as contiguous lines in one chart. See illustrations on the right hand side.

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