Few questions on contour plots

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I am using plotly (in python) to make some interactive plots. Here’s an example dummy code I’m trying to bring to life:

import plotly.graph_objects as go
import numpy as np

xs = np.linspace(0, 1.5, 150)
ys = np.logspace(0, 1, 100)

xs_, ys_ = np.meshgrid(xs, ys)
zs = np.sin(xs_**2 + (ys_ / 10.0)**2)

layout = go.Layout(
    title='Some title',
    xaxis=dict(
        title=r'$d_\phi$',
    ),
    yaxis=dict(
        title=r'$r_e$',
        type='log'
    )
)

z2s = 10**(np.sin(xs_**2 - (ys_ / 10.0)**2) * 10)

bg = go.Contour(z=zs, x=xs, y=ys, contours_coloring='heatmap', colorscale='turbo', line_width=0)
contours = go.Contour(z=z2s, x=xs, y=ys, line_width=1, ncontours=20,
                      contours=dict(
                        coloring='none',
                        showlabels = True,
                        labelfont = dict(
                            size = 12,
                            color = 'white',
                        )
                      ), showscale=False)

fig = go.Figure(data=[bg, contours], layout=layout)
fig.update_layout(autosize=False, width=800, height=600)

Below is the interactive panel it produces and for convenience I overlaid a few questions I had which I weren’t able to find from plotly-s documentation (I’ve been using matplotlib my whole life, so my intuition kinda breaks with plotly).

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Here are the questions.

Q1. In matplotlib there’s contour and there’s contourf, where the first one does not fill in the contour plot. I was able to achieve something similar with in plotly by setting coloring='none', but then I’m not able to figure out how to change the resulting contour line colors (say I want to turn all of them white).

Q2. I was able to change x and/or y scalings (to log) but I don’t quite understand how to do that for the z axis (basically, the color) for individual contours. In matplotlib you typically specify norm=matplotlib.colors.LogNorm(...) or something similar.

Q3. I am also confused about how to properly specify the formatting for labels both on contours and the colorbar. I’d love to have a scientific notation (preferably in LaTeX), e.g. 10^6 instead of 1M etc.

If you’re able to address either of these – I’d very much appreciate it!

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