Glad that MO is up and running again.
Following the suggestion by Michael Murray one can also produce more than just one sudden smiley:
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I guess, that a higher number of images is also possible. But probably some structure may be visible from other directions as well in this case. By the way: The problem seems to be a bit related to tomography...