How to stack layers of 2D plot in horizontally instead of vertically?

I have simple code which stacks 3 layers vertically but I am looking for a way that I can stack them horizontally or in other words along x/y axis and the code looks like as flows:

clear all;clc
x = -2:.1:2;
y = x;
z = rand(length(x),length(y));
for k = 1:15:length(z)

z1 = ones(size(z))*k+2;
surf(x,y,z1,abs(z))

hold on
end

xlim([-2.5 2.5])
ylim([-2.5 2.5])
zlim([-5 50])

set(gca,'Ydir','Normal');
colormap ('jet');
shading('flat');

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

number_of_layers = 3;
relative_spacing = 0.1;   %10%

x = -2:.1:2;
y = x;
z = rand(length(x),length(y),number_of_layers);

y_range = max(y)-min(y);
per_layer_offset = y_range * (1 + relative_spacing);

z1 = ones(size(z,1), size(z,2));

for k = 1:number_of_layers
  this_y = y + (k-1) * per_layer_offset;
  surf(x, this_y, z1, z(:,:,k));
  hold on
end

xlim([-2.5 2.5]);
ylim([-2.5 max(this_y)]);  %you will need to play with this
zlim([-5 5]);  %whatever

[ali nassib]

Thanks for your answers. What I am looking for is something looks like the figure I have shown below.

Many thanks

[Walter Roberson]

number_of_layers = 3;
X_spacing = 1.234;     %adjust per tastes, 1 is valid
first_X = 0.5;         %adjust per tastes, 1 is valid

x = -2:.1:2;
y = x;
nx = length(x);
ny = length(y);
z = rand(nx,ny,number_of_layers);

[Ycoord, Zcoord] = ndgrid(x, y);

for K = 1 : number_of_layers
  Xcoord = (first_X + X_spacing * (K-1)) * ones(nx, ny);
  surf(Xcoord, Ycoord, Zcoord, z(:,:,K));
  hold on
end

ylim([-2.5 2.5]);
zlim([-2.5 2.5]);

and you will want to adjust the view.

You should also be considering creating a hgtransform as that would allow you to create your panes like you were originally, but then rotate them without rotating the axes.

You should also be thinking about using slice()