Lenna
Posted by lordpinoy on August 5, 2008
My Love in her attire doth show her wit,
It doth so well become her;
For every season she hath dressings fit,
For Winter, Spring, and Summer.
No beauty she doth miss
When all her robes are on:
But Beauty’s self she is
When all her robes are gone.
—- Anonymous Madrigal from Poetical Rhapsody (1602)
Lenna’s image has been used in all manner of image processing - from
compression to dithering. Few know that it came from a most unlikely
source: Novermber 1972 issue of Playboy. While I do appreciate
the full image for obvious reasons, I admit that when cropped to
512×512 pixels, such as in the image above, there is something quite
fascinating, enchanting and mystical about her. In my mind she is the
Mona Lisa for a digital age.
