Comment by malfist
2 months ago
This also used to be a really common test image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
But its apparently a cropped centerfold from Playboy
2 months ago
This also used to be a really common test image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
But its apparently a cropped centerfold from Playboy
The original Lenna is controversial, but I'm delighted to share the "ethically sourced Lenna": https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
What's the impetus behind replacing the image with something even sexier?
Cute, but still not as sexy as the original Mandrill test image!
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Original-standard-test-i...
> The original Lenna is controversial, but I'm delighted to share the "ethically sourced Lenna": https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
How is this ethically better than the original Lena - the model in that also one expressly approved the usage of the photo for the purposes it was being used for.
How did she expressly approve the original, when she didn't know for decades that it was so widely used?
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This feels better than the original anyway. I never liked the yellow color that one had. Maybe it was an artistic choice, but to me it just looked degraded, like when white plastic is left exposed to the sun.
Agreed. Seemed like a particularly poor choice to show off the capabilities of an image compression algorithm
Now I regretting leaving the machine vision field, I would love to use this picture in a paper xD
Oh my goodness that is delightful
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause
mercer on Nov 11, 2017 [–]
Is the nipples being marked 'A' and 'B' part of the joke?
DonHopkins on Nov 11, 2017 | parent [–]
As far as I know, those were not the points of the joke. I noticed them for the first time yesterday too, after not noticing them for decades!
As a teen, I'd printed it out, pinned it up on my wall next to the Cray-1 centerfold, and scribbled a bunch of modem phone numbers, user names and passwords all over it, and never even noticed.
I did a quick search for other A's and B's and found that it used those characters as much as any other character for shading, but that sure seems like something some mischievous student, lab member, turist or sentient TECO script at the MIT-AI Lab might have done.
There was no file security so anyone could have edited them in.
Maybe one of Minsky's grad students was performing some A/B testing or eye tracking experiments.
Somebody should ask RMS if EMACS had some special mode for editing line printer porn.
And a poster of Lenna is on the wall of the Richard Hendricks character in the Silicon Valley series. Which makes sense as he's working on a compression algorithm.
Just a heads-up: you seem to be shadow-banned, all your comments are auto-dead.
I can see them?
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It was shot by an actual Hooker, too.