[Matplotlib-users] Best way to plot a 2d histogram?

[Ernest A. <ead...@gm...>]

Hello all,

What is the best way to plot a 2d histogram?
(Note that a 2d histogram is a histogram of a bivariate variable,
so it's got to be a 3d plot.)

Ideally, it should look somewhat like this:
http://www.desy.de/~mraue/public/rootTutorial/v0.2/histogram02.gif

For now, I have tried to do surface plots, one for each "bin",
but this way you only get the tops of a series of imaginary columns
and it looks a bit namby-pamby if you know what I mean.

Any idea will be appreciated.

-- 
Ernest