Carpet plot

Carpet plots have common applications within areas such as material science for showing elastic modulus in laminates,[1] and within aeronautics.

A carpet plot with two independent variables and one dependent variable is often called a cheater plot for the use of a phantom "cheater" axis instead of the horizontal axis.

As a result of this missing axis, the values can be shifted horizontally such that the intersections line up vertically.

The horizontal shift must sometimes be adjusted in order to eliminate or mitigate overlapping.

Instead of using the horizontal axis to adjust the plot perspective and align carpet intersections vertically, the horizontal axis can be used to show the effects on an additional dependent variable.