[Tex/LaTex] Interactive surface plot with pgfplots

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I know that it is possible to embed three-dimensional files into PDFs with \LaTeX which can then actively be interacted with by the reader (see here for example).

I have a surface plot I made with pgfplots. Is there any way to have this surface plot interactive, i.e. to make it like so that the reader can rotate the surface as he/she wishes?

This will obviously only work with a limited set of readers (probably only recent versions of Adobe Reader), but for the sake of trying I'm willing to work with the consequences of this.

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Pgfplots supports two-dimensional projections only.

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