Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cdr.utah.edu!moore From: moore%cdr.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (Tim Moore) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: DISAVOWAL of just a random idea Keywords: monkey coffee-pot playmate Message-ID: <721@wasatch.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 18:28:04 GMT References: <7980@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <22960@sgi.SGI.COM> <8089@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@wasatch.UUCP Reply-To: moore%cdr.utah.edu.UUCP@wasatch.UUCP (Tim Moore) Organization: University of Utah, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 28 >In article <22960@sgi.SGI.COM> eva@socrates.SGI.COM (eva Manolis) writes: >>In article <7980@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, seth@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Seth Teller) writes: >>> This way you could make the dullest of polygons look interesting. Like you >>> could take a Playmate, or a monkey, or something, and put it on a coffee-pot >> ^^^^^^^^ >>PLEASE , must you MEN always include irrelevant sex images in >> everything you do ??? >> -- eva I'm sure the original message was not meant to be offensive. Lena, the November 1971 playmate, is one of the most famous test images in computer graphics/image processing, perhaps second only to the mandrill. She has been texture-mapped onto many objects already (see the inside back cover of Foley and Van Dam.) Regardless of who wrote it, the posting in question refered to the Playmate as a cliche image rather than as the object of a hacker's misplaced desire. It's quite a good test image with which to exercise display programs because the image background contains many slightly different colors. A median cut color allocation algorithm will give too much weight to the background, causing Lena's face to be all broken up. -Tim Moore 4560 M.E.B. internet:moore@cs.utah.edu University of Utah ABUSENET:{ut-sally,hplabs}!utah-cs!moore Salt Lake City, UT 84112