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I ended up going with a very simple thing, where I made 16 drawings with my mouse in p5 and fitted them together. The black lines are drawn by the machine, the color was done by hand. I’m still pretty happy with the result despite its simplicity.
Before I did this, I attempted several other more complex things, but didn’t have the time to finish them. The original plan was to take parametrically modeled 3d objects (heads w/ faces, specifically), generate a 2d drawing of each of them, then warp the 2d drawings by stretching either their 2d outlines or 2d convex hulls to fill various tiled shapes (either a regular pattern or maybe voronoi cells). Too complicated!