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From: hutch@celerity.uucp (Jim Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Ratings for images (was Re: X-rated GIF files)
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Date: 22 May 89 16:34:55 GMT
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article <4488@alvin.mcnc.org> spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) writes:
>article <3681@eos.UUCP> jbm@eos.UUCP (Jeffrey Mulligan) writes:
>>Q1:  How do rate the much-used lenna image [girl in hat with feather]?
>Sexist.
Sexist?  A feather is sexist?  She is a lovely young woman with a feather
in her hat.  If I hadn't been told, I'd never have known she had little
else on.  By the look in her eyes and the demure smile on her face I was
sure she knew things beyond the ken of mortal men.  I realize that this
is a feeling, and not rationale, but atleast I explained my reasoning.
The 'mona lisa' is sexist too?

>>Q2:  How about the original (uncropped) centerfold version of the same?
>Even more sexist.
Sexist?  Sexy?  '72 playboy, so I hear.

If I digitize a picture (within copyright) of a grecian statue of a nymph in
full splendor, I would consider it art.  If she is having a jolly bit of fun
with a faun (satyr), it may be erotica.  If she is being raped by Zeus, then
it is either devine, sexist pornography supporting the degradation of women,
or furthor evidence of the depravity of the ancient greek gods.

The rating of graphical databases based on moral virtue is unfortunately
necessary.  Since some like it and some don't.  Some want the mix 50/50,
some don't.  Some want it not at all, some want it.

Does anyone know of a bitmap format which includes raster overlayss and
transparency (for figleaves and soft focus)?  Hell has a format for storing
frame composition at the end of its press format tapes, but I have never
heard of a disk based *standard* for frame composition.  Renderman is close,
but I am not sure how well the stream description extends.

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