You see some people did beautiful stipple renderings, like this one on top spent a long time making realistic versions.

And the Aha! was, what if we could take Brad Pitt, and we could put Brad in this device, and use this Contour process, and we could stipple on this phosphorescent makeup and put him under the black lights, and we could, in fact, scan him in real time performing Ekman's FACS poses.