it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard
This is the part I don’t get. How has the picture not changed with the times due to camera advances.
It’s not like they were using the uncropped centerfold. There’s nothing wrong with the headshot. It’s a woman in a hat.
But the image is from a photoshoot for playboy so its inherently dirty and offensive, even if they only use the cropped version. /s
Well, according to the Wikipedia article that’s exactly the criticism (but without sarcasm).
This is the part I don’t get. How has the picture not changed with the times due to camera advances.
Same reason the length of a meter hasn’t changed despite measurement advances. It was used as a benchmark.
You were born out of a vagina. You are inherently dirty and offensive.
So does that mean my son is not? (He was a C-section)
He is pure and clean
Her hair is showing, this offends Muslim engineers.