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1971: "This computer-made portrait is part of an experiment by Leon Harmon... to determine how little visual information people need to recognize a human face... Made up of about 200 squares, the photograph uses only 16 shades of gray."
Clip from AP News Archive, Feb 4, 1971.
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Bell Labs in 1971: "COMPUTER CUBISM? ...The picture is divided into about 200 squares, with each square rendered in an even tone from one of 16 intensities of gray."
Below: Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Leon D. Harmon, 1971 | Ragnar Digital Collection.
