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How a nude Playboy model became the standard image compression test subject

cs.cmu.edu — "They had tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating back to television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy."

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  • Subcranium, on 10/12/2007, -7/+84That explains it. I've always thought jpeg worked OK on faces, but I've never been happy about how nipples are compressed.
  • dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Oh, BTW, I forgot to mention that this is NSFW at one point in the site... But then again you probably wouldn't be viewing this story if you were worried about getting caught...
  • 68kMac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Heh, oldie but goldie. I actually used that image in my diploma thesis on - you guessed it - image compression.
  • SimonGray, on 10/12/2007, -18/+4Hot.
  • cmer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20She is just damn hot!
    • theone3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21She's married with children.

      She must be 50-60 years old.

      And yet.. she's fzcking hot. Wouldn't wanna be those kids.
    • iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5and that pic of her (the most recent one of her aged) is from 1997, almost 10 years ago - I"m sure she is 60-70 now.
    • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5From her playboy profile page, she was born in 51. That'd make her 55. Guess she aged pretty fast.
    • Subcranium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5milf
    • nogami, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's interesting - if you read the PDF that's linked on that page, it appears that the image has been banned from a number of graphics magazines because of complaints from women who feel threatened by the image in some way (even the "head & shoulders" image that's totally SFW).

      Just a bit silly.
  • Loonacy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45"They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy."
    Wouldn't that be nice to be able to go to work with an issue of Playboy under your arm, and have the rest of the office think it's a brilliant idea?
  • Lemonblood, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6Don't link to ebaums.

    In other news I've upped a touched up version by me..
    http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8458/leena1copyqv1.jpg
    • cleverboy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4God... why did u even bother? Don't quit your day job.
    • nobodez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8yeah, too smooth, and the buttocks transition is too smooth (and there's a smudge mark going down her leg, very unnatural).
    • LocalH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That looks like *****. I never understood why people want to oversoften flesh tones.
  • jamesob5, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7Damn...back to the bathroom!!! My pants are tight because of her ass.
  • plasticated, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That touched up version isnt as good. It loses the peach fuzz on her ass which was the best bit : )
  • A11ie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37The point of this comment is to be the only girl that comments on this story. Nice hat!
    • Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Ahh, but now I will be the second girl to comment on this story!

      And, that IS a nice hat!
    • subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32We all know you're guys pretending to be girls.
    • hello2usir, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2asl
    • ptrcd003, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Wanna cyborz ;)
    • Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'm female, and I must agree: that is a nice hat.
      She's pretty!
      (No, I'm not a lesbian. It's not against the law for a girl to call another girl pretty, is it?)
    • optimuscrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8FFS, I STILL don't see the hat.
  • philo23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1looks like the biggest image, the full view about 1084x2318, is offline. digg effect
    however I'm clever and downloaded it :D, nice ass.
  • terrya64, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Reminds me how Suzanne Vega's song Tom's Diner was used to create the mp3 format.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom's_Diner
    • Subcranium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What ever happened to her? I got to meet her once--her brother was in my dorm.
    • cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4She got married, had a son, and she just put out a new album a year or two ago.
  • hppyfngy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1this is when portrait mode comes in handy. Woot
  • deadite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27It's almost hard to imagine a time when Playmates had real boobies.
    • BitwiseMcgee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Yeah, I was at an antique shop a few months back, they had stacks of old playboys. It was a actually pretty awesome to see real women, rather than today's bimbos. It was kind of creepy though, seeing as most of em are probably somebody's grandma by now...
  • xeeton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It looks like USC has another "adult" model in their stock:
    http://sipi.usc.edu/database/database.cgi?volume=misc&image=10#top
  • corduroy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I can see why they picked that picture. It's a very beautiful and sensual picture (what happened to those nowadays?) that gives a human touch for something not so human (digital compression).
  • anakin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11The internet IS for porn.
    • Raffstein, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yeah!!, Pr0n really gave internet a boost back in the 80's-90's
  • UWSarge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Woah. Taking a digital image processing class over the summer and this picture came up in an example a couple weeks ago.
  • Magadass, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It goes to show how bad the quality of playboy is today, the woman look fake, unnatural and slutty. Compared to the photos of later when they look elegant, artistic and beautiful like the girl next door photos!

    • hamstereater, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0at least now days other websites are out there devoted to that "Girl next door" look :)
  • naeboo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1zomfg

    that has to be the best looking piece of naked hot ass i seen today.
    im gonna go take a shower now.taz :D
  • kayla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Love that hat! Love it!
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