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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
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