Specify value on a contour with a value that is not in the matrix, it is possible ?

Hello !

I have an interrogation. I have a matrix with m rows and n columns and I plot this matrix with the contour function. In this matrix, there are some values positive and negative. To distinguish negative and positive part I would like to plot a line at 0 but in my matrix, I don't have exactly the value 0. There is a method or a function to help me ?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Yes.

Use the levels argument.

M = (-1:0.11:1).'*(-1:0.9:1);

figure
contour(M, 'ShowText','on')
hold on
contour(M, [0 0], 'ShowText','on', 'LineStyle','--','Color','k')        % Specific Contour At 0
hold off

This plot already plots the 0 contour, however the second contour call specifically plots the 0 contour with a black dashed line.

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Answer 2

[Chunru]

Sure you can.

% a is integer
a=magic(6)

a = 6×6

35 1 6 26 19 24 3 32 7 21 23 25 31 9 2 22 27 20 8 28 33 17 10 15 30 5 34 12 14 16 4 36 29 13 18 11

% We specify the level as decimal number so it is not in the data a
contour(a, [2.1 5.9 20.4], 'ShowText', 'on')

% Now make +ve and -ve values.
b = a - 3.5

b = 6×6

31.5000 -2.5000 2.5000 22.5000 15.5000 20.5000 -0.5000 28.5000 3.5000 17.5000 19.5000 21.5000 27.5000 5.5000 -1.5000 18.5000 23.5000 16.5000 4.5000 24.5000 29.5000 13.5000 6.5000 11.5000 26.5000 1.5000 30.5000 8.5000 10.5000 12.5000 0.5000 32.5000 25.5000 9.5000 14.5000 7.5000

figure
contour(b, [-1 0 5], 'showtext', 'on')

[Gaétan Andriano]

Thank you for you help !

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