Starry night is so easy to feel... I feel like it'd be better to give a height to each pixel in the painting based on its luminosity/color. A sculpture is not a

Starry night is so easy to feel... I feel like it'd be better to give a height to each pixel in the painting based on its luminosity/color. A sculpture is not a painting. At least with this height method, the information conveyed (in terms of entropy) is the same, and if properly trained, I bet anyone could understand the painting through the bump-mapping.