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[Simulacra]

[blag]

handwash: thank you, that does seem pretty fast.

Have been thinking about it some more - since all we know is that it started from stationary, weighs a couple of grams (?) and that the exposure lasted for 1/60s, could we calculate the length and/or speed that way? Again, the physics aludes me. All help appreciated.

[handwash]

[LGarrett]

Howdy. I'm new, and thus, the obligatory "I'm new."

Looking at these pics, I'm inclined to agree that these "drips" were added after-the-fact. A couple of the bigger ones do look like water droplets on an inkjet printout, but most of these look like "pencil" lines from a graphics manipulation program.

And while the star chart idea is a good one, I can't help but think of something a little more down-to-earth (sorry about the pun).

Maybe these lines are in these specific positions because they're supposed to overlay on of the other pictures?

Go back and look at the arbitrary line pic. Maybe it's just me, but the lines seem to stand out in that pic, not to mention that they only occur in approximately two-thirds of the picture.

Maybe it's all wishful thinking, but it just seems too odd that these type of marks would only show up in one pic with no explanation.

-- LGarrett

[timx]

What if we overlay the drips/dots pics over the map of Cambridge Charles has on his site?

But what would that accomplish in-game? It's not like we cold visit any of these places....?

[MageSteff]

Too me the dots look like what you would get from faulty processing of the film - light leaks through cracks in the camera case or storage that caused spots to be overdeveloped, or scratches on the negative.
The light trails aren't in a uniform direction as they would be if they were made at the same time, and there is one big overdeveloped blob on bottom left. At some point the negative or the paper it was printed on was exposed to strong light before it was processed to "fix" the picture on the film. (Who would have thought the one semester of photography would come in useful).

There are some mineral stalagtites on the beams, probably from water erroding the cement or washed from drywall on the upper levels (calcium carbonate, good stuff!) or even from the plaster that has washed off the beams.

[LGarrett]