1. lenna The Internet's firstposter girl, a standardtestload used in the
imageprocessingcommunity. 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 graphicsconference in 1997. There is a fan page at
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