This more flexible 'filled' option is available for 3-D plotting, as well.  See ?plot/options and ?plot3d/option.

To follow up on this discussion, updated polynomial arithmetic is one of the efficiency improvements in Maple 14: updates/Maple14/efficiency.

Roman describes this work in a series of primes posts, the most recent of which is here.

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