Adding Contour Lines

The following commands relate to contour lines in 3D plots: Note that the set contour surface option is not available with the set hidden3d option. Typing the following commands yields the following two graphs:

If only the contours lines are desired, the set nosurface command will turn off drawing the surface. For more information on this, type help set surface. The drawing of contour lines is highly custimizable, for information type help set cntrparam.

For example, if you only want the contour lines for z=.2, .4, .6, you could enter the following:


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