<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>lenna</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="legalese.html" title="legalese"/><link rel="next" href="LER.html" title="LER"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">lenna</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="legalese.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LER.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="lenna"/><dt xmlns="" id="lenna"><b>lenna</b></dt></dt><dd><p>The Internet's first poster girl, a standard test load used in the image processing community. The image was originally cropped from the November 1972 issue of <i class="citetitle">Playboy Magazine</i>, 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 graphics conference in 1997. There is a fan page at <a href="http://www.lenna.org" target="_top">www.lenna.org</a>, with more details. Compare <a href="../U/Utah-teapot.html"><i class="glossterm">Utah teapot</i></a> and <a href="../S/Stanford-Bunny.html"><i class="glossterm">Stanford Bunny</i></a></p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../graphics/len_std.jpg"/><div class="caption"><p>Miss Lena Sjööblom</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="legalese.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="LER.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">legalese </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> LER</td></tr></table></div></body></html>