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Tiling Two Surfaces

This chart is almost always used to illustrate a computed mathematical surface, and could often be combined with a Cloudchart to show a theoretical model overlayed with raw data values.

In the simplest case it takes a rectangular array of arrays of Z-values (effectively a matrix) and treats these as a uniform mesh to be plotted vertically with equally spaced x and y values. An option is to provide either or both of the x and x values as arrays of the correct length, to draw the mesh on a non-uniform scale.

Tiled surfaces are most effectively drawn with semi-transparent fill styles, to allow the axes and any data to show through.

This example shows two intersecting planes, each drawn with 30% opacity.

SharpPlot sp = new SharpPlot;
mesh = new int[][]{new int[]{8,7,6,5,4,3},new int[]{12,11,10,9,8,7},new int[]{16,15,
         14,13,12,11}};

sp.SetMargins(48,12,24,0);
sp.Heading = "Tiled Surface with Contours";
sp.ResponsePlotStyle = ResponsePlotStyles.WallShading|ResponsePlotStyles.GridLines|
         ResponsePlotStyles.TiledSurface|ResponsePlotStyles.Contours;
sp.SetFillStyles(FillStyle.Opacity42);

sp.SetContourStyle(Color.Navy,LineStyle.Dash,1.5);

sp.DrawResponsePlot(mesh);

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