How to create contour plot to show height?
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I want to create a countour plot such that my x axis and y axis are the coordinates of the plane and my z axis is height. I want to creat a 2b plot (contour) such that my height is differentiated with color. My z value has no relation with xy value other that the first value of z is corresponding to the cobination of first two values of x and y.
For example my x, y and z vectors are:
AAA=1:1:1000;
BBB=1:1:1000;
CCC=2:2:2000;
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DGM
on 19 Mar 2022
You can always try just using griddata()
S = load('scattered.mat'); % load scattered data
n = 100;
x = linspace(min(S.x),max(S.x),n);
y = linspace(min(S.y),max(S.y),n);
[xg yg] = meshgrid(x,y); % create new grid
zg = griddata(S.x,S.y,S.z,xg,yg); % interpolate scattered data to grid
contour(xg,yg,zg) % now you can use contour(), contourf(), surf(), etc
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Walter Roberson
on 18 Mar 2022
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Walter Roberson
on 19 Mar 2022
The first parameter to tricontour() needs to be the xy coordinates, each row being an x y pair.
The second parameter to tricontour() needs to be the triangular connectivity data.
You might want to use https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/delaunaytriangulation.html and extract the Points and ConnectivityList properties of the result.
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