Contour Line Smoothing

Smooths contour lines by fitting them with a 2-D spline.
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CONTOURSPLINE(X,Y,Z,N) creates a contour plot having N contour levels from the matrix Z, treating the values in Z as heights above the X-Y plane. X and Y are either vectors defining the X- and Y-axes with length(X) = size(Z,2) and length(Y) = size(Z,1), or X and Y are matrices the same size as Z such as those produced by MESHGRID.
CONTOURSPLINE(X,Y,Z,V) draws contours at the levels given in vector V.
CONTOURSPLINE(X,Y,Z,[v v]) draws a single contour line at level v.

Beware: CONTOURSPLINE smooths contours, but does not magically change terrible data into pleasing data. For terrible data, smoothed contour lines may cross!

Cite As

Duane Hanselman (2024). Contour Line Smoothing (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/38862-contour-line-smoothing), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2006a
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1.0.0.0