ContourShading

ContourShading

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

Details

  • The following settings can be given:
  • Noneuse no shading
    Automaticuse shading based on ColorFunction
    {g1,g2,…}cyclically use successive directives for successive regions
  • With ContourShading->False, regions between contour lines are left blank.
  • 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.

Examples

Basic Examples  (4)

Shade the regions between contours with colors from the color function:

Leave the regions between contours blank:

Specify an explicit list of colors to shade the regions between contours:

Shade the regions between contours with colors from ColorData:

Wolfram Research (1991), ContourShading, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContourShading.html (updated 2007).

Text

Wolfram Research (1991), ContourShading, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContourShading.html (updated 2007).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1991. "ContourShading." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2007. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContourShading.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1991). ContourShading. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContourShading.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_contourshading, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ContourShading}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContourShading.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-November-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_contourshading, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ContourShading}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContourShading.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-November-2024 ]}