""" =============== Filled contours =============== contourf differs from contour in that it creates filled contours, ie. a discrete number of colours are used to shade the domain. This is like a contourf plot in 2D except that the shaded region corresponding to the level c is graphed on the plane z=c. """ from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import cm fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.gca(projection='3d') X, Y, Z = axes3d.get_test_data(0.05) cset = ax.contourf(X, Y, Z, cmap=cm.coolwarm) ax.clabel(cset, fontsize=9, inline=True) plt.show()