# What comes after cols and rows?

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**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-comes-after-cols-and-rows/15729 "2019-11-22T23:44:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulgoux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@paulgoux](https://discourse.processing.org/u/paulgoux)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-comes-after-cols-and-rows/15729/1 "2019-11-22T23:44:43Z")

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General question. What is the standard/conventional name for a component in the z direction

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**Author:** ![Chrisir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/chrisir/32/45_2.png) [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-comes-after-cols-and-rows/15729/2 "2019-11-22T23:59:43Z")

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it depends a bit from the context…

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here it would be plane or etage or floor… (How high a marble is over the ground)?

In Excel it would be the next sheet [or matrix or table ??]

Or I’d say, column, row, **depth** (Z)

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**Author:** ![Lexyth](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/lexyth/32/7403_2.png) [@Lexyth](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Lexyth)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 11:07am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-comes-after-cols-and-rows/15729/3 "2019-11-23T11:07:05Z")

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I‘d go with Layer, Aisle or Slice, depending on the situation… though that question doesn‘t really have anything to do with Processing. And a Google search brought up a Ton of answers, so maybe one of those would be what you‘re looking for. Just Google „Rows Columns 3rd Dimension“.

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**Author:** ![Tiemen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/tiemen/32/5477_2.png) [@Tiemen](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Tiemen)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-comes-after-cols-and-rows/15729/4 "2019-11-23T12:12:35Z")

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As @Chrisir justly mentioned, context might be a factor to pick the right name. I tend to use **level** for the z equivalent of rows and columns.

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**Author:** ![paulgoux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@paulgoux](https://discourse.processing.org/u/paulgoux)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-comes-after-cols-and-rows/15729/5 "2019-11-23T20:14:02Z")

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Thanks for all your replies everyone, I’ve gone with stack for now, not sure why, but I feel layer might be more appropriate in the future.

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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-comes-after-cols-and-rows/15729/6 "2019-11-24T02:42:15Z")

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I couldn’t resist…

“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!”

🙂