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Re: How display negative contours with dashed lines?

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  • Subject: [mg17052] Re: How display negative contours with dashed lines?
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 02:12:01 -0400
  • Organization: University of Western Australia
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WOOD DAVID M wrote:

> I'd like to produce contour plots for which NEGATIVE function values
> are indicated as dashed lines, while other values use solid lines.
> 
> Can anyone suggest how I can on-the-fly specify ContourStyle options
> that will display negative contour values (say in ContourPlot or
> ListContourPlot) as *dashed* lines, via (e.g.) Dashing [or in any
> other way]?

Here is one way:

ContourPlot[x^2 - y^3, {x, -2, 2}, {y, -1, 2}, 
	ContourShading -> False, PlotPoints -> 80, 
	Contours -> {-2, -1, 0, 1}, 
	ContourStyle -> 
		{{Dashing[{0.02, 0.02}]},
		 {Dashing[{0.02, 0.02}]},
		 {Hue[0]}, 
		 {GrayLevel[0]}}]; 

This will show the two negative contours (-2,-1) dashed, the zero
contour in Red, and the positive contour (1) in black.

Note that there needs to be a one-one correspondence between Contours
and ContourStyles for this to work.

Cheers,
	Paul

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