Adaptive Contour Plotting
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When Mathematica creates a contour plot, it starts with a grid of sample points, then automatically subdivides, adapting to the actual form of the function used. See what happens when you change the parameters of its algorithm.
Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram (March 2011)
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