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I'm currently doing some data analysis and I'm struggling to get ListContourPlot to work as expected. Here is a MatrixPlot of my data (just a list of lists):

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By eye it seems like adding contours to this plot shouldn't really pose much of a problem, but doing ListContourPlot on the same data and overlaying it over the MatrixPlot, I get the following:

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Clearly the contours are not following lines of constant colour; can anyone give me any hints as to what might have gone wrong?

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Add the option DataReversed -> True to MatrixPlot:

data = Table[Sin[i + j^2], {i, 0, 3, 0.1}, {j, 0, 3, 0.1}];

lcp = ListContourPlot[data, ImageSize -> 300, ContourShading -> None];
mp1 = MatrixPlot[data, ImageSize -> 300];
mp2 = MatrixPlot[data, ImageSize -> 300, DataReversed -> True];

Row[{lcp, mp1, mp2}]

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Row[Show[mp1, lcp], Show[mp2, lcp]]

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  • $\begingroup$ Brilliant, thank you for the help! Is there any option to do the exact same operation to the ListContourPlot, so that I can keep the data ordered in the way it's ordered in the MatrixPlot? $\endgroup$
    – alex1stef2
    Commented Apr 2, 2020 at 14:58
  • $\begingroup$ @alex1stef2, my pleasure. Thank you for the accept. Welcome to mma.se. $\endgroup$
    – kglr
    Commented Apr 2, 2020 at 14:59
  • $\begingroup$ ... Re "same operation for ListContourPlot.." : you can reverse the rows of the input matrix: ListContourPlot[Reverse@data, ImageSize -> 300, ContourShading -> None] $\endgroup$
    – kglr
    Commented Apr 2, 2020 at 15:24

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