.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/mplot3d/contour3d.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. meta:: :keywords: codex .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_mplot3d_contour3d.py: ================================= Plot contour (level) curves in 3D ================================= This is like a contour plot in 2D except that the ``f(x, y)=c`` curve is plotted on the plane ``z=c``. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 9-21 .. image-sg:: /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_contour3d_001.png :alt: contour3d :srcset: /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_contour3d_001.png, /gallery/mplot3d/images/sphx_glr_contour3d_001_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: Python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import cm from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d ax = plt.figure().add_subplot(projection='3d') X, Y, Z = axes3d.get_test_data(0.05) ax.contour(X, Y, Z, cmap=cm.coolwarm) # Plot contour curves plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_mplot3d_contour3d.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: contour3d.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: contour3d.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_