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This also used to be a really common test image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna But its apparently a cropped centerfol
by malfist 1y ago
This also used to be a really common test image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
But its apparently a cropped centerfold from Playboy
- tux3 1y agoThe original Lenna is controversial, but I'm delighted to share the "ethically sourced Lenna": https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/ https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
- ziml77 1y agoThis 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.
- cyclotron3k 1y agoAgreed. Seemed like a particularly poor choice to show off the capabilities of an image compression algorithm
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- malfist 1y agoOh my goodness that is delightful
- kelseyfrog 1y agoWhat's the impetus behind replacing the image with something even sexier?
- DonHopkins 1y agoCute, but still not as sexy as the original Mandrill test image! https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Original-standard-test-image-of-Mandrill-also-known-as-Baboon_fig9_259521525 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Original-standard-test-i...
- pezezin 1y agoNow I regretting leaving the machine vision field, I would love to use this picture in a paper xD
- lelanthran 1y ago> The original Lenna is controversial, but I'm delighted to share the "ethically sourced Lenna": https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/ 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.
- mark-r 1y agoHow did she expressly approve the original, when she didn't know for decades that it was so widely used?
- lelanthran 1y ago> How did she expressly approve the original, when she didn't know for decades that it was so widely used? Maybe I read the wrong interview with her, but when she found out about it she expressed happiness about it. Since this replacement image was created after her interview, how is it ethically better in any way?
- dinkelberg 1y agoLena Söderberg expressed her wish for her image to be "retired from tech" in 2019 (see the end of this clip, https://vimeo.com/372265771 https://vimeo.com/372265771), when the above alternative image was published.
- amy_petrik 1y ago[dead]
- TacticalCoder 1y agoAnd 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.
- kazinator 1y agoIt was shot by an actual Hooker, too.
- DonHopkins 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42571652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42571652 DonHopkins 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still ev... EBCDIC porn really punched my cards. ;) I had to carefully select just the characters that would punch low resolution monochrome pornographic images into the holes of the punch card. Just joking, I'm not that old -- I started with ASCII line printer porn, like "MC:HUMOR;VICKI BODY", over the government sponsored ARPANET, at 300 baud, so it was like a nice long strip tease on taxpayer dollars. Vicki took almost 4 and a half minutes to finish at that rate, longer during busy weekday business hours. If I recall, the good stuff was all UPPER CASE, which made it much more intense. https://web.archive.org/web/20210512025608/http://its.svensson.org/HUMOR%3bVICKI%20BODY https://web.archive.org/web/20210512025608/http://its.svenss... Decades later, somebody on HN with a sharper eye than I noticed that Vicki's nipples were clearly labeled "A" and "B". Go figure! HN: Should computer scientists keep the Lena picture? (lemire.me) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15671629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15671629 DonHopkins on Nov 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should computer scientists keep the Lena picture? Does "AI:HUMOR;VICKI BODY" get grandfathered in, too? NSFW: MS C0LLINS - 0UI - FEBRUARY 1973: https://web.archive.org/web/20210512025608/http://its.svensson.org/HUMOR%3bVICKI%20BODY https://web.archive.org/web/20210512025608/http://its.svenss... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause 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.