Filled two-dimensional contour plot
matlab Function Reference
A filled contour plot displays isolines calculated from matrix Z and fills the areas between the isolines using constant colors. The color of the filled areas depends on the current figure's colormap.
contourf(Z) draws a contour plot of matrix Z, where Z is interpreted as heights with respect to a plane. Z must be at least a 2-by-2 matrix. The number of contour lines and the values of the contour lines are chosen automatically.
contourf(Z,n) draws a contour plot of matrix Z with n contour levels.
contourf(Z,v) draws a contour plot of matrix Z with contour levels at the values specified in vector v.
contourf(X,Y,Z), contourf(X,Y,Z,n), and contourf(X,Y,Z,v) produce contour plots of Z using X and Y to determine the x- and y-axis limits. When X and Y are matrices, they must be the same size as Z, in which case they specify a surface as surf does.
[C,h,CF] = contourf(...) returns the contour matrix C as calculated by the function contourc and used by clabel, a vector of handles h to patch graphics objects, and a contour matrix CF for the filled areas.
Documentation: http://nf.nci.org.au/facilities/software/Matlab/techdoc/ref/contourf.html
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