{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4784","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4784/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4784/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4784/events","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4784","id":97077065,"number":4784,"title":"Incorrect polygon filling of mplot3d filled contouring","user":{"login":"cwebster2","id":5762261,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5762261?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2","html_url":"https://github.com/cwebster2","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cwebster2/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-07-24T15:26:02Z","updated_at":"2015-07-24T17:52:45Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I have a dataset with large gradients in a quantity I am plotting.  In many cases, this results in mis-filled contours when I use many contouring levels.  For example:\r\n\r\n[![enter image description here][1]][2]\r\n\r\nThis does *not* occur on 2D axes, even with 2 orders of magnitude more contouring levels.  I can reduce some of the fill errors by reducing the number of contouring levels or zooming in on the domain so the strong gradients aren't as relatively strong in figure space.  If I don't fill the contours, e.g. calling `contour` rather than `contourf` there are no errors.  This is restricted to the filling,\r\n\r\nHere is a script that should reproduce the problem for you.  Tested with matplotlib 1.4.3 and python 3.4.1.\r\n\r\n    #!/usr/bin/env python\r\n    import numpy as np\r\n    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\n    import mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d as p3\r\n    \r\n    data=np.array([[53.9751,  51.5681,  50.7119,  51.1049,  51.5339,  51.4977,  51.2387,50.761,  50.1732,  49.8218,  49.5442,  48.936,  47.4498,  46.6484, 45.8542,  45.136,  44.5268,  44.071,  43.7665,  43.5928,  43.5269, 43.5385,  43.6053,  45.565,  47.0071,  46.8664,  47.372,  47.8324, 48.295,  48.731,  49.0522,  49.4001,  49.7111,  49.9919,  50.2527, 50.4928,  50.7135,  50.8831,  51.0806,  51.2683 ],\r\n                   [55.6671,  52.53,  50.7764,  50.5632,  51.2095,  51.5659,  51.521,  51.2143,  50.653,  50.2371,  49.989,  49.8089,  49.6058,  47.8355, 47.3124,  46.7346,  46.1616,  45.6498,  45.2462,  44.967,  44.8005, 44.7284,  44.7295,  44.7869,  46.959,  45.0194,  46.73,  48.0766, 48.9395,  49.5325,  49.8498,  50.1887,  50.4798,  50.7406,  50.9808, 51.2003,  51.4074,  51.555,  51.7429,  51.9218 ],\r\n                   [56.6513,  53.5919,  51.2774,  50.3133,  50.7705,  51.533,  51.8287, 51.7083,  51.2816,  50.7933,  50.4806,  50.2671,  50.1009,  50.0096, 49.9052,  49.4698,  47.4655,  47.0717,  46.6849,  46.3583,  46.1122, 45.952,  45.8678,  45.8485,  45.8811,  45.956,  46.0634,  47.2225, 49.4363,  50.2482,  50.527,  50.8558,  51.1358,  51.3809,  51.607, 51.8179,  52.0161,  52.1454,  52.3263,  52.497 ],\r\n                   [57.078,  54.3224,  52.0759,  50.4679,  50.4677,  51.297,  52.0284, 52.1594,  51.9395,  51.5518,  51.1419,  50.8765,  50.6686,  50.5101, 50.4078,  50.3473,  50.3592,  50.3813,  49.7504,  47.55,  47.324, 47.1365,  46.9978,  46.9119,  46.8743,  46.8811,  46.9257,  47.0013, 50.0148,  50.9106,  51.1133,  51.4282,  51.7064,  51.943,  52.1587, 52.3597,  52.4789,  52.6631,  52.8359,  52.9966 ],\r\n                   [57.3835,  54.9025,  52.8571,  50.9842,  50.5197,  51.1494,  52.0599, 52.4732,  52.4716,  52.2656,  51.9535,  51.6068,  51.3466,  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54.2415,  54.2271 ],\r\n                  [53.9325,  54.6506,  55.0421,  55.2926,  55.4603,  55.5679,  55.6285,55.6792,  55.7234,  55.731,  55.639,  55.3923,  55.043,  54.6845,54.4188,  54.3242,  54.4606,  54.7449,  54.9548,  55.0171,  55.0047,54.9454,  54.9666,  55.0651,  55.1828,  55.2677,  55.3308,  55.3914,55.438,  55.4544,  55.4277,  55.3385,  55.1907,  54.9981,  54.7786,54.5691,  54.4013,  54.2898,  54.233,  54.1994 ] ])\r\n    \r\n    fig = plt.figure()\r\n    ax = fig.add_subplot(111,projection='3d')\r\n    X,Y = np.meshgrid(np.arange(-30.0,-20.0,0.25), np.arange(20.0,25,0.25))\r\n    ax.contourf(X,Y,data,zdir='z',offset=0, levels=np.arange(0,75,1))\r\n    ax.set_zlim(0.0,2.0)\r\n    plt.savefig('testfig.png')\r\n    plt.close()\r\n\r\nwhich produces the image:\r\n\r\n[![enter image description here][3]][3]\r\n\r\nIn this case, reducing the contouring level will fix the mis-fill but for the plots I want to produce this isn't a feasible option.\r\n\r\n  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/UnC1b.png\r\n  [2]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/UnC1b.png\r\n  [3]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/y5vzB.png"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/comments/124598584","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4784#issuecomment-124598584","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4784","id":124598584,"user":{"login":"WeatherGod","id":291576,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/291576?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod","html_url":"https://github.com/WeatherGod","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/WeatherGod/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-24T17:52:45Z","updated_at":"2015-07-24T17:52:45Z","body":"This looks a lot like #186 and #178, which I had forgotten about. But I thought we fixed some of those issues in the 1.4 release...? In any case, I can reproduce the image on the master branch..."}}