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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.

Morten Hannemose posing in a similar image to the traditional Lena image. He has a kind smile, a mustache, and stubble.

Blackle Mori, "Interpolatable Colour Inversion"

An image of London with a solarize filter, the 50% point in this inversion process.

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"

Cat from "Cat and Girl" says "Anna Delvey is a mecha"

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.

#reshares