Why does surf print image to screen so much faster than contourf?

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Patrick Hammer
Patrick Hammer el 18 de Oct. de 2017
Respondida: Nicolas Schmit el 19 de Oct. de 2017
Hello, I'm trying to plot a large data set using contourf, but it takes an extremely long time just to show up on my screen. I use surf and it prints to the screen very quickly, however it doesn't render as well. I was wondering why this might be>

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Nicolas Schmit
Nicolas Schmit el 19 de Oct. de 2017
Probably because contourf() has to slice the dataset to calculate the coordinates of the contours plots, whereas surf() can directly plot the surface from the coordinates.

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