Reshares: Ethically sourced Lena, color inversion, mecha
Morten Hannemose, "Ethically sourced Lena"
Lena refers to an image that's traditionally used to test digital image processing. It's a cropped, poorly scanned image of Lena Forsén from her centerfold in Playboy magazine, November 1972.
There have been many calls to stop using the Lena image, including from Lena herself: "I retired from modeling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too." As of this year, IEEE publications no longer allow the use of the image.
Anyway, Morten Hannemose has provided a similar, ethically-sourced, higher-quality, actually free alternative, and it is fantastic.
Blackle Mori, "Interpolatable Colour Inversion"
For demoscene reasons, Blackle Mori was faced with this problem: how do you transition between an image and its color-inverted version, without it just being a really boring fade to gray in between? The answer is interactive and looks damn cool.
Cat and Girl, "Meet the Mech Suits"
I have to resist the bloggish temptation to go on for paragraphs about why I want you to see this one panel out of context from Cat and Girl, bringing up Anna Delvey when I least expected it. I want you to see it because it made me go pffffff.