Henrik, that is very helpful. I think that I have seen FullForm before but I didn't know that it did that, exactly. That's awesome!

I appreciate the example, but did "conts" get defined in the code that you provided. I hope that I'm not being dense, but I couldn't get your example to run (except for the first part where you generated the initial data set and contour lines). If something got left out, I'd love to see it, if you wouldn't mind sending it along.

Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated.

Take care,

Matty

Hi Matty,

you can "explore" every object in WL using the command FullForm. Then you can see how details can be extracted. In the case of contour lines one can try this:

(* example plot using "ContourShading\[Rule]None": *)    
data = RandomReal[1, {10, 10}];
plot = ListContourPlot[data, InterpolationOrder -> 3, PlotRange -> All, ContourShading -> None]

You get a list of lines (according to the levels) like so:

lines = Normal[First@plot][[2]];

To convince yourself on what you get try:

plotRange = First@AbsoluteOptions[plot, PlotRange];
Manipulate[Graphics[lines[[;;n]], plotRange], {n, 1, Length[lines], 1}]

Hope that helps, regards -- Henrik

EDIT:

[source code] /. conts -> plot