OK, so that Slagmeister from Playboy died happy at age 91
Just Lena: The strange Story of the magazine's most-sold issue
Originally posted by b_picture at Просто Лена: странная история самого продаваемого выпуска журнала Playboy
via кончины бессменного главного редактора Playboy Хью Хефнера
Female Algorithms
After the death of the permanent editor-in-chief of Playboy Hugh Hefner at the age of 91, many editions recall the most memorable moments in the history of the magazine. And suddenly, a strange story came up - the best-selling number of Playboy at all times was the November 1972 edition with the Swedish model Leno Söderberg. The sales record was determined by the "Girl of the Month" on the spreads. However, the popularity of the number sold was not related to the beauty and sexuality of the model, but to the use of its image in computer programming.
The story began in the summer of 1973 when a group of engineers from the University of Southern California assisted a colleague, Alexander Savchuk, to find a photo to study image processing algorithms, according to the Institute of Electrical Engineers and Electronics.
They dug up the stock of photos that were commonly used in the day - boring illustrations of the television standard of the 1960s. For a better result, they needed a glossy image with a wide range of colors, and they wanted a photograph with a human face.
Someone suggested taking a photograph from Playboy magazine November 1972 with Pam Rawlings on the cover. However, the engineers went beyond the first page and looked to the centrefold, presenting a photo shoot with Leno Söderberg. Because they were at work, the only work-safe image they had is the fragment-the face of the model and the naked shoulder.
So a photograph called "Lenna" became history. The scientific study on image processing was formed this basis for JPEG and MPEG standards.
"Since then, the Playmate magazine image of the month has become a de facto standard (a technical specification, originally not a standard that has historically been widely used and accepted): It has been tested and processed in all types of image correction techniques that honed new processing algorithms. "As a result, the mysterious Lena became the first lady of the Internet."
Sampling of Interpolation Research here : link
Because the source of the photo was specified, other researchers purchased several copies of the magazine to replicate the experience. This raised the sales of the release and made it a collector's item among programmers. The image is essentially the most used picture of a woman on computer.
The magazine, with the Söderberg photo shoot, has sold over seven million copies, and the model has become a real star in the circles of programmers. In 1997, she even attended the conference of the Community Imaging Science and Technology, which is responsible for the science of the collection, storage, retrieval and processing of visual information, and was pleased to hand out autographs there.
The Complete Lena Story
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Originally posted by b_picture at Просто Лена: странная история самого продаваемого выпуска журнала Playboy
via кончины бессменного главного редактора Playboy Хью Хефнера
Female Algorithms
After the death of the permanent editor-in-chief of Playboy Hugh Hefner at the age of 91, many editions recall the most memorable moments in the history of the magazine. And suddenly, a strange story came up - the best-selling number of Playboy at all times was the November 1972 edition with the Swedish model Leno Söderberg. The sales record was determined by the "Girl of the Month" on the spreads. However, the popularity of the number sold was not related to the beauty and sexuality of the model, but to the use of its image in computer programming.
The story began in the summer of 1973 when a group of engineers from the University of Southern California assisted a colleague, Alexander Savchuk, to find a photo to study image processing algorithms, according to the Institute of Electrical Engineers and Electronics.
They dug up the stock of photos that were commonly used in the day - boring illustrations of the television standard of the 1960s. For a better result, they needed a glossy image with a wide range of colors, and they wanted a photograph with a human face.
Someone suggested taking a photograph from Playboy magazine November 1972 with Pam Rawlings on the cover. However, the engineers went beyond the first page and looked to the centrefold, presenting a photo shoot with Leno Söderberg. Because they were at work, the only work-safe image they had is the fragment-the face of the model and the naked shoulder.
So a photograph called "Lenna" became history. The scientific study on image processing was formed this basis for JPEG and MPEG standards.
"Since then, the Playmate magazine image of the month has become a de facto standard (a technical specification, originally not a standard that has historically been widely used and accepted): It has been tested and processed in all types of image correction techniques that honed new processing algorithms. "As a result, the mysterious Lena became the first lady of the Internet."
Sampling of Interpolation Research here : link
Because the source of the photo was specified, other researchers purchased several copies of the magazine to replicate the experience. This raised the sales of the release and made it a collector's item among programmers. The image is essentially the most used picture of a woman on computer.
The magazine, with the Söderberg photo shoot, has sold over seven million copies, and the model has become a real star in the circles of programmers. In 1997, she even attended the conference of the Community Imaging Science and Technology, which is responsible for the science of the collection, storage, retrieval and processing of visual information, and was pleased to hand out autographs there.
The Complete Lena Story
.