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Give 'em the ol' razzle-dazzle! (europe.pub)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

herefor the width of the human in pixels, is, in fact,

Yeah, I copied the right image to all three positions, masked the dress and infilled the patterns.

The horizontal one in the center did show some interesting artifacts around the hips, making her look a bit lumpy as the shadows and black lines ran together.

https://lemmy.zip/post/54743159/23280305

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When this got posted a few months back someone measured everything. It's just 3 photos cut out and pasted side by side. This is a post of a post, they used the image front Twitter as well.

The point is that regardless of how the stripes make her look, it's 3 photos with slightly different poses and scaling. It's an imperfect comparison crammed in a twitter post.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, and I just posted the link to the last time we has this discussion, where I edited the pic to be three exact copies of the same image and eliminated the differences, making it a fair comparison.