Extracting contour values from ContourPlot
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- Subject: [mg100797] Extracting contour values from ContourPlot
- From: dg <davide.guarisco at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:40:17 -0400 (EDT)
I have spent an hour researching this group and online, with no definitive answer. The problem: I have an nxm matrix of z values that I want to plot with List(Contour|Density)Plot together with a legend that shows the *actual* values of the contours used in the plot. (Seems like a pretty basic thing to me....). I know how to draw a nice legend, that's not the problem. I have found a way to do it: I can specify the contours and plot range explicitly. But what I really want is not to have to do this, and rely on the semi-intelligent mechanism of Mathematica to pick an appropriate number of contours and their values, THEN use those to draw the legend. It seems that there is no way to do this. That is, there is no way to extract the actual contour values used in the plot. I found a ColorBarPlot package which however does not work in Mathematica 7: <http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/7030/> Is it really not possible to do this?