The cover story of the February 2004 issue of Broadcast Dialogue magazine features an article by MICAN's Michael J. Martin.  The article entitled, "Structural Daydreaming and a Hollywood Beauty" discusses the idea of conceptual parallelism as a modelling tool.  It describes how this tool can be applied in technical design and systems engineering within the broadcasting and telecom sectors.

In the article, Martin describes an example by the world-famous Hollywood movie star and renown beauty, Hedy Lamarr.  Lamarr's patent for her invention of spread spectrum modulation is a brilliant illustration of the practical application of the conceptual parallelism technique.

An original George Hurrell photographic image of Hedy Lamarr (circa 1930s) is seen on Broadcast Dialogue's February 2004 cover. 

Martin scanned the supplied 35mm black & white slide to create a high resolution (4,000 dpi x 4,000 dpi) image file.  Then, he prepared the image for publication by adjusting sharpness, overall light levels, contrast ratios, levels of shadows, mid-tones and highlights, and performed some simple touch-ups to eliminate defects and faults found in the original.  All of these tasks were done with Photoshop CS in his digital darkroom.  These efforts restored the decades old image before it was sent to the publisher for assembly into their magazine cover layout.  The publisher decided to flip the image on the  horizontal axis (left to right), so it would integrate better with the other graphical elements on the magazine cover.

The original photograph was provided courtesy of Hedy Lamarr's son, Anthony Loder, and the Hedy Lamarr Archives.  Many thanks go to Anthony for his continuous support and good cheer throughout this project.