I'm not quite sure what to make of this except that it was made:
Yes, that's Callista Gingrich, and I have gotten Quartz Composer to take a PNG and turn it into a DAE equivalent with brightness as the third dimension, to what end I do not yet understand. The squares are representations of points; in theory I should be able to make a Callista wireframe and manipulate it, but there is apparently some magic to the ordering of meshes that I haven't worked out yet; at the moment trying to give her volume doesn't work because the vertices are in the order of the slices of PNG (in a Javascript array - yay me) and it just makes lines in mildly Callista-shaped grill. Hmm. It may require some math I am not up to. Anyway, for now I can do weird shit like this:
Maybe the path to learning this is to just make a simpler array and mess with the vertex order before trying something so complicated.