Somebody posted about this thread...a psychiatrist supposedly. Here's what he had to say about that thread

"Hi all. I'm a psychiatrist. My main area of clinical work is emergency psychiatry, and my main research interest is functional brain imaging. I'd like to start a discussion about the rapist thread, which I see as a serious danger. In a nutshell:
Rape is a crime which sometimes hinges directly on feelings of power over the victim.
That power often loses its meaning if the victim is unconscious. Many rapists typically need a victim who knows they are being victimized.
This victim is the rapist's audience. This is crucial.
The audience gives the rapist pleasure, euphoric delight from unfettered, witnessed suffering. That euphoria is intense and is possibly driven by the same neurobiology involved in a drug high.
Now, when Reddit invites rapists to retell their stories, they offer an audience of thousands. The possibility that individuals reading these stories will be horrified afresh is very appealing to some rapists. It’s neurobiologically very much like anticipating drug use.
Note: the audience doesn’t actually need to be horrified. In the mind of the rapist, the possibility of horrifying an audience is what is appealing.
Ever wonder what makes addicts keep using? A major factor is the craving that comes from recalling the feelings associated with the pleasurable activity or drug. Cocaine addicts, active or in recovery, who are asked to think about using cocaine have measurable brain changes precisely when they report cravings. We haven't actually measured this in rapists, but we suspect it's highly analogous.
Thus, the Reddit rape forum is very possibly triggering rape cravings in rapists.
It is also teaching rapists how to rape better via shared stories, the same way we teach new participants to improve in any field, by sharing our experiences.
I plan to be available to discuss this, so jump in."



http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xf5c2/reddit_are_you_aware_how_dangerous_the_askarapist/

>> ^alien_concept:

I have a question. What does the flashing colours actually mean??

I don't know either, so I did some googling. http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/types-of-brain-imaging-techniques/ Thats as close as I came to answering the question. If the CAT scan tag is accurate then I've no idea how they image brain activity, so I'd guess it was of the other methods or a combination. Basically blood flow/oxygenation, electrical or magnetic fields from brain activity or positrons produced from radioactive decay from active parts of the brain.

What any of that means in terms of what is actually going on in the brain I've no idea. Ask a neurologist

>> ^vairetube:
5/2009
really what we're talking about here is insanely increasing the resolution of the original photo to begin with, so the manipulation software isnt the issue... maybe you have video technology that takes multiple levels/layers/scenes and can on demand get that data... thats more of an issue with the recording technology then analyzing.


http://www.petapixel.com/2010/05/07/omni-focus-camera-boasts-infinite-depth-of-field/

5/2010
Researchers at the University of Toronto have come up with a new video camera that can achieve infinite depth of field even when objects are immediately in front of the camera. What they did was stuff an array of video cameras into a single camera, with each camera focused at a different distance.


2009:
http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/montage/main.htm
System that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels

Present:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/09/23/1325247/brain-imaging-reveals-the-movies-in-our-mind

"Brain activity evoked by the second set of clips was used to test the movie reconstruction algorithm. This was done by feeding 18 million seconds of random YouTube videos into the computer program so that it could predict the brain activity that each film clip would most likely evoke in each subject. Finally, the 100 clips that the computer program decided were most similar to the clip that the subject had probably seen were merged to produce a blurry yet continuous reconstruction of the original movie"


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So maybe you just need to find a witness then you can read their minds! Blows the incredulity over CSI out of water.

I'm not sure this guy is entirely telling the truth. He says in another video that he suffered a concussion in addition to the facial laceration. If he was admitted to the emergency dept with altered mentation in addition to the obvious trauma he likely would have had head/brain imaging with non-contrast CT. This in and of itself is several hundred dollars. I don't know if he was admitted as a trauma by ambulance, but if he had temporary loss of consciousness or altered mentation then the EMT/paramedics may have called in a high level trauma, which by default activates multiple services and personnel including anesthesia, general/trauma surgery and radiology. People spend way more than $7,000 on things like cars and travel. Why complain about medical treatment at one of America's leading private hospitals? I've worked at Stanford - I'm sure he was evaluated within 10 minutes of arriving at a bay in the ED. Stanford is a private, for-profit hospital with level 1 trauma services. He may have had a prolonged wait either because his status was triaged downwards for other traumas or the ED may have consulted dermatology or plastic surgery for the facial laceration repair. They may have been waiting for radiology clearance as well.