This video is kind of jerky...building the model takes a lot of horsepower and then running the screen capture at the same time adds more to that. But yow is my brain ever tired of figuring out how to do this, and boy am I addicted to figuring out how to do it. Quartz Composer runs a single pass on an image and collects vertices and colour information, and as it does so it builds the charming image below. It gets more smooth once the model's built.