#lena image

[godzillabbygirl]

Lenna Sjööblom photographed by Dwight Hooker, cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine

The now infamous image would later become a standard test image in digital image processing, where it is known as Lena Image. (I just learned about her in this fascinating video!)

[earlgraytay]

This is a really fascinating video about the images they use to test image processing algorithms- and one infamous image in particular.

cw: misogyny (especially in computing). Don't Read The Comments.

[joylessmarxist]

[stefyjonas1]

I love watching niche videos that teach me things

[icarus-suraki]

I keep trying to get Midjourney to generate something akin to the Lena Image. Nothing worth writing home about yet...

[joylessmarxist]

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