SCP-CN-161

Item #: SCP-CN-161

Object Class: Safe

Fractal image printed on SCP-CN-161's surface

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-CN-161 has been stored in an Standard Inanimate Object Locker in Site-CN-08. Any use of SCP-CN-161 requires Level 3 clearance.

Description: SCP-CN-161 is a machine similar in structure and identical in operation to a Xerox Model A copier. The exterior of SCP-CN-161 is engraved with four fractal images, each located on one of the machine's four vertical sides; these images have been identified as Julia sets¹. SCP-CN-161 can be disassembled and reassembled; however, replacing any part of the object besides the ink cartridge will inhibit the anomalous properties of the object until restored.

SCP-CN-161's anomalous properties manifest when the object is used to copy a document. The textual content and images contained within the document will be altered to fit the user's intelligence level and language ability. These alterations preserve objectivity and do not change the meaning of the text; they can take the form of translation from one language to another, adding explanations of specialized terminology, indicating the origin and meaning of quotations, adding visual explanations, adding background information, and changing the text to a more common register. See Experiment Report CN-161-A.

With regards to handwritten documents and original works of visual art, SCP-CN-161 can determine the author's intention and can subjectively reflect this in the copied document, typically by circling and adding explanatory notes to regions of the image. See Experiment Report CN-161-B. SCP-CN-161 does not have any this effect on photographs, copies, or printed versions of artworks.

Addendum:

+ Experiment Report CN-161-A

User: Warehouse engineer Wu Bage
User Description: Computer science specialist, understands Modern Standard Chinese and Modern English
Date: 200█/8/23

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Original: Extracts from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Tuscan dialect of Italian
Copy: Translated to a mix of Modern Standard Chinese and English, with additional background information

Original: Documentation for the open-source Apache Hadoop project, Modern English
Copy: No change

Original: Advertisement for cosmetic products, Modern Standard Chinese
Copy: Large volume of explanatory text added explaining the products and how to use them

Original: Extracts from The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada, Modern Japanese
Copy: Translated to Modern Standard Chinese, with added descriptions of each character and "█████ ████ is the murderer" appended at the end.

User's feelings became abnormally intense. Test aborted.

User: Senior Researcher Wu Yichu
User Description: Cognitive science specialist, fluent in Modern Standard Chines, Modern English, Modern German, Old High German, Modern Russian and Modern French
Date: 200█/8/23

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Original: Extracts from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Tuscan dialect of Italian
Copy: Translated to a mix of Modern German, Old High German and Modern French, with additional background information

Original: Documentation for the open-source Apache Hadoop project, Modern English
Copy: Added explanations of specialized terms

Original: Extract from information written by the Kuiyang sect, Old Chinese
Copy: Translated to Modern Standard Chinese

Original: Clear photograph of bronzeware
Copy: Background information relating to bronzeware was added below the image; inscription in the photo was translated into Modern Standard Chinese

User: D-9023
User Description: Illiterate
Date: 200█/8/24

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Original: Ode to the Goose by Luo Binwang, Old Chinese
Copy: Painting of geese in water

Original: A popular science article on the biohazard symbol
Copy: A biohazard symbol, an X, and a hand

User: D-1275
User Description: High school education, fluent in Modern Standard Chinese
Date: 200█/8/24

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Original: Ode to the Goose by Luo Binwang, Old Chinese
Copy: No change

Original: A popular science article on the biohazard symbol
Copy: Some specialized terms were replaced with more common terminology

User: A robot arm controlled by an Intel 8088 microprocessor
User Description: N/A
Date: 200█/8/24

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Original: Ode to the Goose by Luo Binwang, Old Chinese
Copy: No change

Original: A popular science article on the biohazard symbol
Copy: No change

Original: Implementation of a primality test, Python
Copy: Code rewritten in 8086/8088 assembly²

+ Experiment Log CN-161-B 

User: Senior Researcher Wu Yichu
User Description: Cognitive science specialist, fluent in Modern Standard Chines, Modern English, Modern German, Old High German, Modern Russian and Modern French
Date: 200█/3/01

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Original: Experiment plans by Assistant Researcher ████ ██, handwritten
Copy: "For safety reasons" is crossed out and "Because I don't want to work at night" is written below; "I have decided to improve the original process" is crossed out and "Required tools were not approved, the method must be changed" is written below

Original: Experiment plans by Assistant Researcher ████ ██, photocopied
Copy: No change.

Original: A song worshipping [DATA EXPUNGED], handwritten
Copy: "Are you that [DATA EXPUNGED]? You [DATA EXPUNGED] born in the slaughter fields, go rot in a camel's belly!" added at the end

Original: Childhood drawing by Warehouse Engineer Wu Bage, original
Copy: Text "My mom is a great scientist" added

Original: Childhood drawing by Warehouse Engineer Wu Bage, photograph
Copy: Poor handwriting in top right replaced with text "Wu Yichu"

Footnotes

1. Mathematical regression has estimated the parameter C = -0.4. + 0.6i.

2. Programming language used by the Intel 8088