NAME

         PDL::Graphics::TriD::Contours - 3D Surface contours for TriD

SYNOPSIS

           # A simple contour plot in black and white

           use PDL::Graphics::TriD;
           use PDL::Graphics::TriD::Contours;
           $size = 25;
           $x = (xvals zeroes $size,$size) / $size;
           $y = (yvals zeroes $size,$size) / $size;
           $z = (sin($x*6.3) * sin($y*6.3)) ** 3;
           $data=new PDL::Graphics::TriD::Contours($z,
                      [$z->xvals/$size,$z->yvals/$size,0]);
           PDL::Graphics::TriD::graph_object($data)

FUNCTIONS

   new()
       Define a new contour plot for TriD.

         $data=new PDL::Graphics::TriD::Contours($d,[$x,$y,$z],[$r,$g,$b],$options);

       where $d is a 2D pdl of data to be contoured. [$x,$y,$z] define a 3D map of $d into the visualization
       space [$r,$g,$b] is an optional [3,1] piddle specifing the contour color and $options is a hash reference
       to a list of options documented below.  Contours can also be colored by value using the set_color_table
       function.

         ContourInt  => 0.7  # explicitly set a contour interval
         ContourMin  => 0.0  # explicitly set a contour minimum
         ContourMax  => 10.0 # explicitly set a contour maximum
         ContourVals => $pdl # explicitly set all contour values
         Label => [1,5,$myfont] # see addlabels below
         Font =>  $font      # explicitly set the font for contour labels

         If ContourVals is specified ContourInt, ContourMin, and ContourMax
         are ignored.  If no options are specified, the algorthym tries to
         choose values based on the data supplied.  Font can also be specified or
         overwritten by the addlabels() function below.

   addlabels()
       Add labels to a contour plot

         $contour->addlabels($labelint,$segint,$font);

       $labelint is the integer interval between labeled contours.  If you have 8 countour levels and specify
       $labelint=3 addlabels will attempt to label the 1st, 4th, and 7th contours.  $labelint defaults to 1.

       $segint specifies the density of labels on a single contour level.  Each contour level consists of a
       number of connected line segments, $segint defines how many of these segments get labels.  $segint
       defaults to 5, that is every fifth line segment will be labeled.

   set_colortable($table)
       Sets contour level colors based on the color table.

       $table is passed in as either a piddle of [3,n] colors, where n is the number of contour levels, or as a
       reference to a function which expects the number of contour levels as an argument and returns a [3,n]
       piddle.  It should be straight forward to use the PDL::Graphics::LUT tables in a function which subsets
       the 256 colors supplied by the look up table into the number of colors needed by Contours.

   coldhot_colortable()
       A simple colortable function for use with the set_colortable function.

       coldhot_colortable defines a blue red spectrum of colors where the smallest contour value is blue, the
       highest is red and the others are shades in between.