Comments on: Anatomical Follies

By: Sean Duggan

Sean Duggan — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:55:26 +0000

You know, the whole "X-ray vision" as a means of seeing people naked thing is somewhat overrated. Unless your ability works like something actual like X-rays (which raises all kinds of interesting question of radiation damage from your indiscriminate scanning), the odds are that there'd be all kinds of problems with scanning through levels of clothing to the flesh. Does your vision exclude certain materials? Certain densities? Certain depths? I suspect that most such abilities would basically give you the ability to replicate the Visible Human Project on people. It's an interesting thought exercise, though.

By: boolean

boolean — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:22:02 +0000

I guess Frank wasn’t expecting people to be looking that closely at her _knees._

Plenty of, um, other things to distract the eye. ;-)

By: David Oakes

David Oakes — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:01:56 +0000

Having looked up tubercle (hey, I was Genetics, we didn’t care what it coded for), I am going to have to agree that the “bump” in question was intended to be the bulbuous end of the tibia. The lmp below the yellow arrow is either shadow or musculature.

But it still means that the anatomy is off, because if it is the tubercle, then she has some very thick skin. In fact, not only are the knee bones set too far back, they seem to be about 2/3 the size of her leg. The tibia should run right along the main shadow along the front of the leg, not down the back! Obviously Mark is Kryptonian, and is having trouble focusing all the extra lenses in his eye, leading to “floating knees”…

(Human anatomy as “Magic Eye” 3D image. Ouch.)

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:39:24 +0000

I thought the bulge below the yellow arrow was supposed to be the tibial tuberosity -- which is nowhere near where the tibia is drawn. You're right, it does look more like elbow bones than knee bones. Here's a few images I found on the web:

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:34:06 +0000

I’m going to disagree with you both. I think that the external bulge at the yellow arrow is due to the tibial tubercle. The patella doesn’t articulate with the tibia, rather it has a joint with the femur. I would say that the bulge at the 10-11 o’clock position is more likely due to the patella, which is shown low riding where it is. It also strikes me that the bones look more “elbowy” than they should.