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Re: ContourPlot problem

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  • Subject: [mg15531] Re: ContourPlot problem
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:47:30 -0500
  • Organization: University of Western Australia
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Pedro A Santos wrote:

> When I give the command
>
> ContourPlot[(1-Exp[-1/((x)^2+(y)^2)/10]),{x,-1.0,1.0},{y,-1.0,1.0},
>   PlotPoints ->{50,50},
>   Contours -> {.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7,.8,.9,.99, .99999999},
>   ContourShading ->False]
>
> I get what would be to expect, i.e. all the contours. But if I change
> slightly the domain,
> say  "{x,-1.1,1.1},{y,-1.1,1.1}", the majority of the contours
> disappear. And they do not appear even if I increase PlotPoints to 200> or more.
>
> Does anybody know the reason of this strange behaviour? And how to
> avoid it?

Mathematica automatically choses the PlotRange.  If you set
PlotRange->All you will see all the contours in both cases.

Cheers,
        Paul

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