title: How can I render 3D histograms in python?
body: <p>I want to make plots like these from <a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321842685" rel="noreferrer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Hacker's Delight</a>:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/07J79.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>What ways are there to accomplish this in Python? A solution that makes it easy to interactively adjust the graph (changing the slice of X/Y currently being observed) would be ideal.</p>
  
  <p>Neither matplotlib nor the mplot3d module have this functionality AFAICT. I found mayavi2 but it's extremely clunky (I can't even find the option for adjusting the sizes) and only seems to work correctly when run from ipython.</p>
  
  <p>Alternatively gnuplot could work, but I'd hate to have to learn another language syntax just for this.</p>