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mox to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

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Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

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mox to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
  • @ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world
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    39•1 year ago

    But the image is from a photoshoot for playboy so its inherently dirty and offensive, even if they only use the cropped version. /s

    • @RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3•1 year ago

      Well, according to the Wikipedia article that’s exactly the criticism (but without sarcasm).

      • @ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world
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        it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard

        This is the part I don’t get. How has the picture not changed with the times due to camera advances.

        • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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          4•1 year ago

          Same reason the length of a meter hasn’t changed despite measurement advances. It was used as a benchmark.

    • @DancingBear@midwest.social
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      2•1 year ago

      You were born out of a vagina. You are inherently dirty and offensive.

      • @Malfeasant@lemmy.world
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        1•1 year ago

        So does that mean my son is not? (He was a C-section)

        • @DancingBear@midwest.social
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          1•1 year ago

          He is pure and clean

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