seth@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Seth Teller) (12/08/88)
eva, you're right, the message was offensive and i apologize. however, there's something you and the rest of the net should know: ----> I DID NOT POST IT. <---- the message was composed and posted by two graphics people who broke into my account and sent it out under my name. rather than name them here, i have asked them to mail a public retraction to the net (and a private one to you). yours, seth ps next time you're about to flame me, call me first. ********************** In article <22960@sgi.SGI.COM> eva@socrates.SGI.COM (eva Manolis) writes: >In article <7980@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, seth@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Seth Teller) writes: >> I have this idea, see: you take an image (like any bunch of pixels, could even >> be a picture) and you kind of paste it on a surface, like wallpaper on a wall. >> This way you could make the dullest of polygons look interesting. Like you >> could take a Playmate, or a monkey, or something, and put it on a coffee-pot > ^^^^^^^^ > >> >> -- seth seth@miro.berkeley.edu > > > >PLEASE , must you MEN always include irrelevant sex images in > everything you do ??? > > What, are you hard up, or something ?? > > -- eva
moore%cdr.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (Tim Moore) (12/08/88)
>In article <22960@sgi.SGI.COM> eva@socrates.SGI.COM (eva Manolis) writes: >>In article <7980@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, seth@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Seth Teller) writes: >>> This way you could make the dullest of polygons look interesting. Like you >>> could take a Playmate, or a monkey, or something, and put it on a coffee-pot >> ^^^^^^^^ >>PLEASE , must you MEN always include irrelevant sex images in >> everything you do ??? >> -- eva I'm sure the original message was not meant to be offensive. Lena, the November 1971 playmate, is one of the most famous test images in computer graphics/image processing, perhaps second only to the mandrill. She has been texture-mapped onto many objects already (see the inside back cover of Foley and Van Dam.) Regardless of who wrote it, the posting in question refered to the Playmate as a cliche image rather than as the object of a hacker's misplaced desire. It's quite a good test image with which to exercise display programs because the image background contains many slightly different colors. A median cut color allocation algorithm will give too much weight to the background, causing Lena's face to be all broken up. -Tim Moore 4560 M.E.B. internet:moore@cs.utah.edu University of Utah ABUSENET:{ut-sally,hplabs}!utah-cs!moore Salt Lake City, UT 84112
fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) (12/10/88)
In article <721@wasatch.UUCP> moore%cdr.utah.edu.UUCP@wasatch.UUCP (Tim Moore) writes: >I'm sure the original message was not meant to be offensive. Lena, the >November 1971 playmate, is one of the most famous test images in >computer graphics/image processing... > >She has been texture-mapped onto many objects already (see >the inside back cover of Foley and Van Dam.) I just looked and god is she UGLY! How did she ever make playmate anyway... :-) :-) -Fred