lenna

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lenna - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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