how do i make this contour plot more presentable

Hi , How can i make this contourf plot more presentable ?

[Walter Roberson]

Use fewer levels perhaps? You can pass the list of level values as the last parameter.

Answer 1

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

The crossing contours confuse/worry me, are you adding additional contours from another data-set ontop of your contourf-plot?

Perhaps you can get a cleaner presentation by combining pcolor and contour, something like this:

pcolor(x,y,data),shading flat
hold on
contour(x,y,data,12,'k')
contour(x2,y2,data2,10,'m') % If you want additional contour-plots ontop of the first

HTH