Creating Color Map, Contour And Vector Plot

This example illustrates how to create color map, contour plot and vector plot by the usage of 3D surface data. You can find the data in the file setuppath\ samples\data\regular.txt, here setuppath is the setup path of Visual Data in your computer, for example, c:\program files\Visual Data.

1. Click button.

2. Click Import Data ... item from File menu to import data from the file setuppath\ samples\data\regular.txt. The size of the data is 41*29. You can see them in Data Edittor.

3. Click button in Standard toolbar to open Color Map Properties dialogbox. Set colors of the graph.

Click OK button to create the color map.

4. Click button in Standard toolbar to open Contour Plot Properties dialogbox. Input 30 in Levels textbox. Set color of contour lines to be grey in Lines tab.

Click OK button to add the contour plot.

5. Click button in Standard toolbar to open Vector Plot Properties dialogbox. Set color of the vectors.

Click OK button to add the vector plot.