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<spanid="sphx-glr-gallery-frontpage-contour-py"></span><h1>Frontpage contour example<aclass="headerlink" href="#frontpage-contour-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This example reproduces the frontpage contour example.</p>
<spanclass="n">x</span><spanclass="o">=</span><ahref="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.arange.html#numpy.arange" title="View documentation for numpy.arange"><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">arange</span></a><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="o">-</span><spanclass="mf">3.0</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="mf">4.001</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="n">delta</span><spanclass="p">)</span>
<spanclass="n">y</span><spanclass="o">=</span><ahref="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.arange.html#numpy.arange" title="View documentation for numpy.arange"><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">arange</span></a><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="o">-</span><spanclass="mf">4.0</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="mf">3.001</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="n">delta</span><spanclass="p">)</span>
<spanclass="n">X</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="n">Y</span><spanclass="o">=</span><ahref="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.meshgrid.html#numpy.meshgrid" title="View documentation for numpy.meshgrid"><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">meshgrid</span></a><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="n">x</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="n">y</span><spanclass="p">)</span>
<spanclass="n">Z1</span><spanclass="o">=</span><ahref="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.exp.html#numpy.exp" title="View documentation for numpy.exp"><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">exp</span></a><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="o">-</span><spanclass="n">X</span><spanclass="o">**</span><spanclass="mi">2</span><spanclass="o">-</span><spanclass="n">Y</span><spanclass="o">**</span><spanclass="mi">2</span><spanclass="p">)</span>
<spanclass="n">Z2</span><spanclass="o">=</span><ahref="https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.exp.html#numpy.exp" title="View documentation for numpy.exp"><spanclass="n">np</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">exp</span></a><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="o">-</span><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="n">X</span><spanclass="o">-</span><spanclass="mi">1</span><spanclass="p">)</span><spanclass="o">**</span><spanclass="mi">2</span><spanclass="o">-</span><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="n">Y</span><spanclass="o">-</span><spanclass="mi">1</span><spanclass="p">)</span><spanclass="o">**</span><spanclass="mi">2</span><spanclass="p">)</span>
<spanclass="n">fig</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="n">ax</span><spanclass="o">=</span><ahref="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.subplots.html#matplotlib.pyplot.subplots" title="View documentation for matplotlib.pyplot.subplots"><spanclass="n">plt</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">subplots</span></a><spanclass="p">()</span>
<spanclass="n">fig</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">savefig</span><spanclass="p">(</span><spanclass="s2">"contour_frontpage.png"</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="n">dpi</span><spanclass="o">=</span><spanclass="mi">25</span><spanclass="p">)</span><spanclass="c1"># results in 160x120 px image</span>
<ahref="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.show.html#matplotlib.pyplot.show" title="View documentation for matplotlib.pyplot.show"><spanclass="n">plt</span><spanclass="o">.</span><spanclass="n">show</span></a><spanclass="p">()</span>
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