Hey, thanks!

I get you, the guy at the print-shop I use has asked me several times if my art is artificially generated.

I don’t know what you expect as evidence, but I’ll try.

This is a picture from my last exhibition, and the box there is the scanner-camera.

The fabric is 15 meters by 145cm, I have friends holding it stretched out of frame at both sides.

This is another shot from the same shoot. I think it’s very dynamic, but I like the ‘sunbeam’ from the original post better.

And this is a still from a video I took of my friend playing around With the fabric in the wind before she jumped down from the boulder I made her stand on in order to get the original shot.

I hope that covers it. The wavy pattern is due to the linear sampling of the scanner, and the play of motion over time.

What OP did was produce a functioning scanning back camera out of a pile of junk, which is definitely an achievement that deserves some props.

These types of mechanisms were more popular in the 90's and early 2000's before we'd nailed the ability to produce high resolution image sensors. Using quite rudimentary existing technology you can generate massive high pixel count images provided, of course, that your subject matter has the decency to hold still. These types of things were used widely for high resolution product photography and landscape shots destined to be reprinted in large formats.

I can imagine a focused lens projecting onto a white sheet on the scanner bed, then scanned. Pretty neat imo