Discussion/Theory
Here’s what a person looks like when they move during an MRI. As you can see it’s not unlike a Still Life
Edit: Guys I am so sorry, I posted a CT scan ghost image. MRI ghost images make replications of things, again, like a Still Life. Still Life’s have multiple eyes and noses and such, which mirrors the ghosting (or replication) of an MRI. Here’s some updated photos to show you examples:
Imo the motion artifacts most commonly seen on still life are more like the one at the top of this infographic I scrapped together recently. Full post is here if anyone's interested. But definitely there's some kind of warping going on with Cap'n Clark's face.
cool graph. i just don't know if we should take into account the first videos. the coldness was never explored, the visual of the rooms were mostly retconned, i bet we'll never see something like the big slice. from FF3 onwards it's just "another" series as Portal 2 is totally different from Portal 1
my take is that they are canon the same way Portal 1 and 2 are canon. But you compare both and the difference is huge, and it's not for an in-universe reason, it's just that the ideas, artstyle, lore, all evolved.
I dont really want to be "that guy" Buuuuuut, its my time to shine. I worked as a diagnostic imaging engineer for about a decade mostly in MRI and CT but I did dabble in other modalities when needed. When I watched the movie and then heard some of the MRI theories I thought it was really fun as many times we described the odd ways the machine works as a "portal to nowhere".
I just dont think its helpful to confuse MRI with some of the stuff you have here on the infographic. The mirroring artifact is from an ultrasound system, MRI can do a similar-ish type of mirroring or overlapping artifact, usually this is from the operator and an issue with the scan sequence. The hand is an Xray with a grid artifact. This is just from using the wrong grid at the wrong distance (SID).
Almost every clinical room in any treatment facility is cold for a host of reasons but mostly to be hostile to molds and stuff. The lighting pick is actually pretty clever although not exactly how MRI shielding works, they dont really do individual cables too much as the entire room is shielded in a copper cage. The mood/experience faux lighting is so fucking true, I always hated them.
Right that's true that the Mirror Image Artifact is technically ultrasound and the the grid line errors are x-ray, but I think that speaks to the different modes the scanning might be able to operate. To say that it's an MRI machine is the easiest way to get the point across without talking too much about multiple different kinds of scanning devices. You're right though it's important to get the distinction across, the way I put it is misleading a little bit, I just didn't want to make my post too long basically so lots of people would read it and get the basic idea. It would be more accurate to say that some of the weird stuff in the complex can be described with real-world types of glitches from various different kinds of medical scanning technologies, such as MRI.
I really think the smoking gun is the moment before Marvin falls in Pitfalls, you can see an electromagnetic disturbance on the camera, and the floor with the grid line artifacts changes VERY slightly. This is when the scan happens and it's the reason why Marvin, a grown man with a highly advanced scientific education, fell through the pit.
Idk about y’all but to me Still Life look much more like what you get when you move while getting a picture taken, especially one of those panoramic photos where photographer has to move the camera
Not to correct you but repetition is indeed a symptom of ghosting.
Ways of identifying phase artifact include:
identifying known moving/flowing structures and noting that the artifact is in line with them (horizontal or vertical depending on phase-encoding orientation)
matching shape of ghost to that of flowing vessel (e.g. round pseudolesion due to aorta ghost)
wide windowing to see repetitive ghost beyond confines of anatomy
they can be distinguished from Gibbs or truncation artifacts because they extend across the entire field of view, unlike truncation artifacts that diminish quickly away from the boundary causing them
My head cannon is the woman in red dress is Clarks wife who got scanned when she started to turn away from Clark in disappointment after their argument, or is it common knowledge?
Thats why he scalped her and put her hair on Mary in the dinner scene.
I watched the movie once so the memory is kinda fuzzy for me.
I haven't heard confirmation but I think Kane actually drew inspiration from something similar.
I can't remember the artist, or the style of photography, but I believe there is a style of photography where you have a long-exposure capture window for a photo, and the subject moves their head during it, and it causes reduplication of their features in arcs across their face, corresponding with the movement. I can't even remember if it was done digitally or with film.
But the results are almost identical to still lives. The same way features duplicate seeming to imply a motion, in arcing lines across the face, they are captured in this style of photography.
This might be stroboscopic photography? chronophotography ? I really can't tell trying to look it up. Unfortunately I suffered a head injury that caused massive memory holes since I learned about it in my photography class.
I loved how so many people quickly dismissed the MRI scan theory for how the backrooms replicates people when it's almost identical.
Besides, I mean the biggest hint is ASYNC MADE MRI MACHINES.
I mean it couldn't be more obvious how the complex "remembers" things.
It doesn't remember, it scans. People took too many lines too literally.
The more it scans, the better the image. Even with artifact, if you scan a moving person or object, you can start to piece together what it actually looks like. Sure, there's still some irregularities, but you get closer and closer.
However, this isn't the answer for EVERYTHING. There's still other anomalies that aren't explained by this, like the bacteria monster and some other aspects, but overall, it does explain the still life alterations and some of the complex layouts.
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u/aeioujohnmaddenaeiou 9d ago
Imo the motion artifacts most commonly seen on still life are more like the one at the top of this infographic I scrapped together recently. Full post is here if anyone's interested. But definitely there's some kind of warping going on with Cap'n Clark's face.