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Some image effects take mere seconds to create. But it’s usually those that require a little more work that are all the more rewarding for it. In this project we’ll look at how to transform a portrait into a series of striking geometric shapes.

Unfortunately we can’t just run a filter over the image, we have to create each individual polygon shape. But this makes the overall impression completely unique, rather than

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