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ContourShading

ContourShading
is an option for contour plots which specifies how the regions between contour lines should be shaded.

	None	use no shading
	Automatic	use shading based on ColorFunction
	{g₁,g₂,...}	cyclically use successive directives for successive regions

With ContourShading->Automatic, regions are colored based on the setting for the option ColorFunction. The default is to color the regions with gray levels running from black to white with increasing height.

The value given as the argument for the ColorFunction function is the average of the values of the contour lines bounding a particular region. If ColorFunctionScaling->True, it is scaled so as to lie between 0 and 1.