On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> wrote:
Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
The Lena image that we ship is a standard image in the image processing literature, however it's also controversial
Even though Playboy is a source of adult material, the Lena image in itself is not sexist.
It's a detail from a pornographic image, and a throwback to a mysterious age when it was completely ordinary for this to happen in an image processing lab: """ They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy. """ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna Thank God, that isn't ordinary any more. As Pauli says - there's no need to keep Lena any more. Matthew