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Demonstrates plotting contour (level) curves in 3D using the extend3d option
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This modification of the contour3d_demo example uses extend3d=True to
extend the curves vertically into 'ribbons'.




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.. code-block:: python


    from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    from matplotlib import cm

    fig = plt.figure()
    ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
    X, Y, Z = axes3d.get_test_data(0.05)

    cset = ax.contour(X, Y, Z, extend3d=True, cmap=cm.coolwarm)

    ax.clabel(cset, fontsize=9, inline=1)

    plt.show()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.092 seconds)



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