I think you can make it with pyplot.contourf() and the argument V http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.contour
"contour(Z,V) contour(X,Y,Z,V) draw contour lines at the values specified in sequence V" On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Luke <hazelnu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a function of three variables and am interested in plotting the zero > level surface: > f(x,y,z) = 0 > Is there a simple way to plot this level surface in 3-D without having to > resort to meshing up x and y, and solving for the z that satisfies the > equation? I can do this, but it gets messy because there are anywhere from > 0 to 2 solutions to the equation for each point in the x-y plane. > The mplot3d examples all seem to calculate the z-data simply from simple > functions of x and y. > Thanks, > ~Luke > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users