> I'd say it has enough historical significance to still be acceptable.
This sounds a lot like Redskins argument.
> The source code for various compression algorithms may have been lost, but the encoded Lena results for that compression algorithm may very well still exist.
We need to compare a new algorithm to an obsolete one where we don't even have the source code and this is beneficial... how?
This sounds a lot like Redskins argument.
> The source code for various compression algorithms may have been lost, but the encoded Lena results for that compression algorithm may very well still exist.
We need to compare a new algorithm to an obsolete one where we don't even have the source code and this is beneficial... how?
By the way, the image is remastered in 2013 so none of this is relevant anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#Remastering