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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
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Date: 7 Dec 88 18:28:04 GMT
References: <7980@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <22960@sgi.SGI.COM> <8089@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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>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.



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