I came across Lena when I did Image Processing and Neural Networks in NTU. A very intelligent friend of mine knew the source of the photograph and told me that it was the photograph from playboy.
I was hooked. I mean, when was the last time science and playboy came together? I was very curious to know the full story. Now, Lenna.org has the full story and a link to the original picture (the picture contains nudity).
And what's more, she is alive and the old sexy looks are gone and in place is a glow and beauty that grows with age! Welcome back Lena!
P.S. There is an internet censor body in Singapore! I wasnt allowed access to one of the links in the lenna.org pages. Gives me this:
Due to Media Development Authority (MDA) regulation, this website that you are trying to access is a restricted website.
Comments
3 years 12 weeks ago, sat wrote:
Too many posts.
Too less a time.
3 posts in less than 6 hours - what r you doing?
Oh yes - came across the Lenna image while doing my btech final project. And in that process, also split the image into tiles, converted to BW and did a whole lot of other stuff, all for the sake of science.
Apparently, she was invited to some image processing conference recently, and was quite surprised that she was so popular.
And the reason why that image is so popular among image processing people is that it has a variety of colors, tones and gradients, making it quite suitable for lot of software testing.
3 years 12 weeks ago, deepak wrote:
"... told me that i was the photograph from playboy."
umm... i ??
3 years 12 weeks ago, kr!sh wrote:
Only good thing about my projects.
3 years 12 weeks ago, divya wrote:
sat: It was a saturday morning!
deepak:oops my bad! fixed! Thanks!
kr!sh: thts wat all guys say!
3 years 12 weeks ago, Aye Kay wrote:
Aaarghh!! Finally something concrete to say that your Comp Eng courses were better than our EEE courses in NTU ;)
PS: the 2nd lenna.org link in the post is broken - as it turned out, of the 3 links in your post, I had to try the broken one :d
3 years 12 weeks ago, shekhar wrote:
tht newspaper hoopla can never invade chennai.only 40% of chennai reads deccan chronicle.
3 years 12 weeks ago, virumandi wrote:
good info...being a biology student..i did not know a speck about this..in fact..it took me one hour to understand what it means!!..thanks!!
3 years 12 weeks ago, Miao wrote:
I knew the story about this pic when I was taking image processing class in NTU. I was eager to see her full pic after I heard the story. I googled and found out the pic, haha, it was so nice! It seems that a pic selected for science can be much famous than one selected for fun!
3 years 12 weeks ago, angelsera wrote:
so who said tt scientist dont know how to have fun ..