This LEGO riff on Van Gogh’s famous self-portrait is a great optical illusion

I put together an instructable on how to use limited palette gifs to make nice lego or pushpin portraits.

(And even there I didn’t use any actual pushpins)

The dithering in the 5 color gifs produces images that look much better to me, with the illusion of intermediate colors, than ones produced just by posterizing the image into 5 bands of the closest flat colors you can find.

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