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## Contour Plots

The function contourf displays z = f(x, y) as a function of x, y, quantizing the z values into several constant values. The code below shows how to use contourf to display a contour plot of z = 3 * x ^ 2 + 5 * y ^ 2:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
def f(x, y):
return 3 * x ** 2 + 5 * y ** 2
x_grid = np.linspace(-2, 2, 100)
y_grid = np.linspace(-2, 2, 100)
# Create two ndarrays xx, yy containing x and y coordinates
xx, yy = np.meshgrid(x_grid, y_grid)
zz = f(xx, yy)
# Draw contour graph with 6 levels using gray colormap
# (white=high, black=low)
plt.contourf(xx,
yy,
zz,
6,
cmap="gray")
# Add black lines to highlight contours levels
plt.contour(xx,
yy,
zz,
6,
colors = "black",
linewidth = .5)
plt.show()
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