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ericstalbot

opened on Dec 10, 2012

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• lena.png is indecent and has no place on the matplotlib webpage or in the sample data (see demo_annotation_box.py and image_demo3.py)
• if that isn't reason enough to remove it, I'm guessing it is a copyrighted image and that permission has not been granted to use it
• and let me add one more reason: I'm just plain tired of seeing it when I browse the gallery

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1. pelson commented on Dec 10, 2012

   

   pelson

   on Dec 10, 2012

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   lena.png is indecent

   In what way? Because of the source of the original image?

   I'm just plain tired of seeing it when I browse the gallery

   Sorry, but for me that is not enough of a reason. The Lenna image is a standard "test" image for many image processing libraries (example: http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_hog.html#example-plot-hog-py).

   For more information see the wikipedia article on Lenna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

   I'm going to close this issue. If Lenna tires you so much then please feel free to submit a pull request which provides an alternative image which is at least partially recognisable in the image processing world.

   Thanks,
2. pelson

   closed this as completedon Dec 10, 2012
3. ericstalbot commented on Dec 10, 2012

   

   ericstalbot

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   Thanks for the education on standard images in image processing. I was not aware that that image is so important. However, I would think that most matplotlib users don't care about standard images and would rather not see an image with pornographic origins every time they browse the gallery.

   I have submitted a pull request that provides an alternate image.

   Reacted by Shankar Sivarajan

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