Aspects of the present disclosure aim at providing three pseudo-orthogonal waveforms that can be used for transmitting 3n bits (n bits over each waveform) at a given frequency. Use of such three pseudo-orthogonal waveforms can be used in applications such as QAM to create a 3-dimensional QAM, along with use in other like applications such as in Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK), among others. The three pseudo-orthogonal waveforms can in general be used in any application where complex number algebra is used, and can help increase transmission capacity by additional 50%.