# Plots.jl how to create a heat map from several curves

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package, plotting\
**Created:** [October 3, 2020, 6:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-jl-how-to-create-a-heat-map-from-several-curves/47683 "2020-10-03T06:41:39Z")\
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It’s not clear to me what you want to achieve, from what kind of input. Usually a [heatmap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_map) is not a series of curves. Please clarify, and provide an MWE generating the data.

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