The apparatus
The bench below is the same code that renders every plate in the exhibition. Choose a work, choose an algorithm, and destroy it at whatever resolution you like.
Ordered dithering against a fixed 8×8 matrix. The grid is regular, so the image acquires a woven texture that was never in the original. The threshold shifts the whole matrix, so ink coverage still swings widely.
The share of the plate given over to ink. Change algorithm and drag the threshold: on Floyd–Steinberg this figure will hardly move, because the algorithm spends all its error correcting you.
Rendered live · nothing here is a pre-made image
Catalogue
Portrait of a Man (Il Condottiere)
Portrait of a Young Man
Marble bust of Herodotos
Melencolia I
Knight, Death and the Devil
Saint Jerome in His Study
The Vitruvian Man
Portrait bust of the emperor Gaius, known as Caligula
Battle scene (detail), from the Legend of the True Cross
Portrait bust of a woman
Portrait of a Young Man (detail of the face)No plates in that room.
All eleven works are in the public domain or released CC0 — see the colophon.