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brownpaperblag · Greenhorn Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 3

[SPEC] Cambridge Hostpital - Rust room "drips"

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:51 pm

Tien_Le

rustroom dots

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:54 pm

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I dunno...

by imposing symmetry on the picture and flipping the sides, you're bound to get something that looks non-random.

However, I've no explanation for it.

Perhaps we should ask charles?

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:34 pm

docvego · Boot Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 47 Location: York, PA

It could be worth asking Charles, but I think stuff like that can actually happen in nature.

With the room all rusty and stalagtighted (yeah it's a word, i sware) it's probably dripping down a lot of white, mineral enriched water from the cieling to the floor. You could be seeing the result of the exposure on a lot of dripping water. For the condition the room is in, it could made sense.

I could still be wrong of course, so it's worth checking with Charles anyway.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:08 pm

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brownpaperblag · Greenhorn Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 3

Yeah I was thinking the same thing Rob... but it just seemed... you know.

I've emailed charles anyway

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:14 pm

RobMagus

We specced that it was dripping stalactites. However, those things are not all falling straight down or even in the same directions as each other.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:14 pm

FartyMcBride · Boot Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 15 Location: NYC

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:55 pm

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Eolirin · Greenhorn Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

The drips that are at diagonals seem very heavily aliased(jagged edges). If they were part of the actual environment when the picture was taken I don't think they'd look like that.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:57 pm

brat-sampson · Decorated Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 289 Location: Stark

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 7:46 pm

Samnite · Kilroy Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 2

Here's the obligatory "I'm new" line: I'm new here.

Anyway, looking at those things, they're definitely not part of the original picture, and they're definitely not falling. They look more like they're small white dots flying upward, with blur.

When I saw Blag's image of the isolated dots, though, the first thing I thought of wasn't symmetry but stars. If that matched up with a night sky or something, it could give us a date? I don't really know anything about if that's feasible, and certainly not how to do it, but I feel like I've seen it work in a movie before. Any thoughts?

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 8:08 pm

RobMagus

Someone should crosscheck that starry sky with the ones in Myst. *grin*

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:14 pm

brownpaperblag · Greenhorn Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 3

Update from IRC:

DocVego found that the image has metadata stored inside it - nothing groudbreaking, just info about the camera that shot it.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:46 pm

handwash · Greenhorn Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:27 am

mmdoogie

The big spots look to me like when a drop of water gets on an inkjet-printed photo and runs down. The smaller ones, I don't know...

Just a guess...

--mrm

**Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 1:43 am

monty · Boot Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 23 Location: Vancouver, BC

Some thoughts before bed....

1. A Nikon E3100 is a digital camera. Digital cameras do weird things in dark rooms (i.e. all of those bogus 'orb' photos you see online which are just specks of dust...albeit specks of dust that usually don't show up nearly as well with a film camera).

2. Shooting with a flash would cause water drops to appear as points..but if the exposure continued beyond the flash the remaining light could illuminate the drops long enough for them to form streaks like that. In other words it looks like a shot that was illuminated by a flash that didn't last as long as the exposure time.

3. The diagonal streaks seem to be localized on an axis in-line with the door in the background...if they ARE drops, they could be at an angle due to an air current. It's interesting to not that you don't see any diagonals in the other direction except for the two big ones to the immediate left of the door in the extreme foreground (very out of focus).

4. As per dishboy's excursion to the actual site (link: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4795&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15), it doesn't look like there was anything on the Cambridge Grounds approximating this degree of mayhem on or around May of 2004...does it?

**Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:01 am