[gburt]

I'm not trolling, but this appears to work pretty poorly. Does anyone know any better approaches to approximating images like this?

[binarymax]

Poorly compared to what?

[gburt]

Sorry for not being clear, in a more "objective" sense of reproducing the original image as a stacked series of polygons in this case.

I realize that that is only sort of the point (there's a lot of "cool technique demo" here).