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## 2D projection (set view map)

An important special case of the splot command is to map the Z coordinate onto a 2D surface by projecting the plot along the Z axis onto the xy plane. See set view map. This plot mode is useful for contour plots and heat maps. This figure shows contours plotted once with plot style lines and once with style labels.