Adding additional contour lines using matplotlib 2D contour graphics

Question

I am creating a two-dimensional contour plot with matplotlib. Using the provided documentation http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/contour_demo.html , such a contour graph can be created.

import matplotlib
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.cm as cm
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

delta = 0.025
x = np.arange(-3.0, 3.0, delta)
y = np.arange(-2.0, 2.0, delta)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)
Z1 = mlab.bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0)
Z2 = mlab.bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.5, 0.5, 1, 1)
# difference of Gaussians
Z = 10.0 * (Z2 - Z1)

plt.figure()
CS = plt.contour(X, Y, Z)
plt.clabel(CS, inline=1, fontsize=10)
plt.title('Simplest default with labels')

which displays the following graph.

The documentation details how to manually mark specific contours (or “lines”) on an existing chart. My question is how to create more contour lines than the ones shown.

For example, in the plot shown, there are two two-dimensional Gausses. Upper right has three contour lines: 0.5, 1.0and 1.5.

How can I add contour lines to say 0.75and 1.25?

, ( ) () 1.0 1.5. ?

Answer 1

, levels:

levels = np.arange(-1.0,1.5,0.25)
CS = plt.contour(X, Y, Z, levels=levels)

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import numpy as np
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

delta = 0.025
x = np.arange(-3.0, 3.0, delta)
y = np.arange(-2.0, 2.0, delta)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)
Z1 = mlab.bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0)
Z2 = mlab.bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.5, 0.5, 1, 1)
# difference of Gaussians
Z = 10.0 * (Z2 - Z1)

plt.figure()
levels = np.arange(-1.0,1.5,0.25)
CS = plt.contour(X, Y, Z, levels=levels)
plt.clabel(CS, inline=1, fontsize=10)
plt.title('levels = {}'.format(levels.tolist()))
plt.show()

levels = np.arange(-1.2, 1.6, 0.2).

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, x y :

plt.xlim(0, 3)
plt.ylim(0, 2)

, , 24 ,

CS = plt.contour(X, Y, Z, 24)

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import numpy as np
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

delta = 0.025
x = np.arange(-3.0, 3.0, delta)
y = np.arange(-2.0, 2.0, delta)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)
Z1 = mlab.bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0)
Z2 = mlab.bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.5, 0.5, 1, 1)
# difference of Gaussians
Z = 10.0 * (Z2 - Z1)

plt.figure()
N = 24
CS = plt.contour(X, Y, Z, N)
plt.clabel(CS, inline=1, fontsize=10)
plt.title('{} levels'.format(N))
plt.xlim(0, 3)
plt.ylim(0, 2)
plt.show()

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