I'm trying to use contour_plot
for plotting contours defined only in a region of the parameter space, namely only in the triangle defined by the vertices $(0,0), (1/2,\sqrt{3}/2), (1,0)$. The faces of this triangle are defined by the intersections of the x-axis and the lines of equation $y=\sqrt{3}x$ and $y=-\sqrt{3}x+\sqrt{3}$.
Contour_plot has the nice option region
, but it seems that region
only accepts one condition, i.e. only one boundary because the documentation specifies that region
must be of the form $f(x,y)$ and this is interpreted by the code of countour_plot
as $f(x,y)>0$, i.e. countour_plot
plots all points such that $f(x,y)>0$. Is there a way to do what I need with this version of contour_plot
?
The following represents what I’d like to do but it does not work. It does not throw an error but only takes into account the first condition
contour_plot((x^2) * cos(x*y), (x,-10,5), (y,-5,5), region=(-sqrt(3)*x-y and -sqrt(3)*x+sqrt(3)-y), fill=True, contours=30)
Note that there are other imperfect solutions to this problem like using a white polygon to hide the part of the plot I do not want to see. However, this "solution" is not desirable because the maximum and minimum values of contour_plot
will not be defined with respect to the region I am trying to show (I hope this is clear; I can show an example if this is not).