Re: contour changes the number of levels

[Miquel Cabanas]

hi,

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:08:27PM +0200, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
> I am trying to use octave to make a contour plot, but I have a little
> problem. My problem is that the function contour seems to change the
> number of contour levels. Is this supposed to happen or is it a bug?

it's a feature :-)

> octave:6> contour(x,y,z)

contour is an octave function ---type 'which contour' at the
octave prompt to find where contour.m lives in your computer or
'type contour' to see its content--- that depending on the number
of arguments sets several gnuplot parameters, e.g. the number of
levels, and then plots the data.

If you want a fixed number of levels, say 40, then try using,

contour(x,y,z, 40)

it should do the job.

Miquel


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