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Built-in Mathematica Symbol

MaxPlotPoints

MaxPlotPoints
is an option for plotting functions like ArrayPlot and ListPlot3D that specifies the maximum number of points that will explicitly be included in the output.

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With MaxPlotPoints->Infinity all points in the input will be included in the output.

With finite settings for MaxPlotPoints, the total number of points plotted is reduced by combining nearby points.

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Basic Examples (4)

All the data points are used by default:

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Only use 25 points for the plot:

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Features can be minimized with a large dataset:

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Reduce the number of points used to more easily see patterns in the data:

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