# Set terminal and output set terminal postscript enhanced color set output 'filled_contours.ps' # Set various features of the plot set pm3d unset surface # don't need surfaces set view map set contour #set key outside set nokey set cntrparam cubicspline # smooth out the lines set cntrparam levels 50 # sets the num of contour lines set pm3d interpolate 20,20 # interpolate the color # Set a nice color palette set palette model RGB defined ( 0'black', 1'blue', 2'cyan',3'green',4'yellow',\ 5'red',8'purple' ) # Axes set xlabel 'COC angle (degree)' set ylabel 'C-H distance (angstrom)' set format x '%.1f' set format y '%.1f' set format z '%.2f' # Now plot splot 'filled_contours_data.txt' using 1:2:3 notitle with lines lt 1