lenna

this is lenna, the face of compression algorithms in digital imaging.

i have been staring at her from my laptop for the past 2 hours in the chem library while comparing image compressions type JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIFF. the last 3 lectures before break were also spent staring at her. that totals to alot of hours. gladly, she is pretty and not an eyesore, if not i might have gone mad by now.

part of the history of the photo was that it was a nude spread in playboy that a computer technician happened to walk into the lab with one day while they were looking for something interesting to experiment on. successful compression of her photo, with the pornographic parts cropped out, resulted in widespread fame and playboy threatening to sue.

interesting=)