Auto Redraw—Automatically redraws the contour plot in response to changes made to the Fill Contours, Method Style, or Spline controls. (Default: Selected.)

Fill Contours—Controls whether color other than the background color is used to fill the areas between contour lines. When Fill Contours is selected, the intervals between the contour lines are filled with the contour line colors.

Cell—The cell-drawing method, used by default, examines each array cell and draws all contours emanating from that cell before proceeding to the next cell. This method is efficient in terms of computer resources but does not allow contour labeling.

Follow—The line-following method searches for each contour line and then follows the line until it reaches a boundary or closes. This method gives better looking results with dashed linestyles, and allows contour labeling, but requires more computer time.

Spline—Allows you to spline the contour lines. This function can be used when either the Follow method of contour drawing, or Fill Contours is selected.