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Just Beautiful

Robin Hanson
Sep 10, 2009
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Don’t miss the hi-res version.

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Overcoming Bias Commenter
May 15

maybe this is what q meant, but it looks like (in family blog-speak) lady bits

you know, like orchids, butterflies, etc.

is this too evo-psych?

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Overcoming Bias Commenter
May 15

Are you saying that the images would be equally beautiful if the color mapping were random?

I took the picture and added a gradient map to it. It's not quite the same as changing the color mapping (or maybe it is, I am not really sure how much information is lost in the conversion to grayscale), but you get the idea: http://img193.imageshack.us...

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