lenna

   The  Internet's  first  poster girl, a standard test load used in the
   image processing community. The image was originally cropped from the
   November 1972 issue of Playboy Magazine, which anglicized the model's
   name  with  a  double  n.  It  has  interesting properties -- complex
   feathers,  shadows,  smooth  (but  not  flat)  surfaces  --  that are
   pertinent  in  demonstrating  various processing algorithms for image
   compression,    filtering,    dithering,   texture   mapping,   image
   recognition,  and  so  on.  After  a  quarter  century  of  remaining
   completely  unaware  that  she  had become an icon, a gray-haired but
   still  winsome  Lenna  finally  met  her  fans at a computer graphics
   conference  in  1997. There is a fan page at www.lenna.org, with more
   details. Compare {Utah teapot} and {Stanford Bunny}

   

   Miss Lena Sjööblom

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