[SciPy-user] surface plotting

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:23:42PM +0530, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
> With the script you sent, you could do this:

> from enthought.mayavi.tools import mlab
> mlab.figure()
> s = mlab.surf(X, Y, Z, colormap='jet')

> This will give you a 3D surface.  You can't set the contours directly 
> but you certainly can modify the returned object or do this from the UI. 
>  For example,

> s.enable_contours = True
> s.contour.filled_contours = True
> s.contour.contours = range(-17, 16)

See also contour_surf which will give you convenient keyword arguments
for that.

Gaël