Holy Shroud:The essence of religion meets human science

Like I said: Rub your face with paint or colored powder and wrap a towel around your head, as like a shroud.

Repeating a specious statement or ignorant one does not make it any more true. Shrouds were not "wrapped around" the head. Using that as an example for any purpose about the shroud, positive or negative is both specious and ignorant. Why say it, much less repeat it?

A two dimensional painting from the perspective of a viewer at a distance. Not from the perspective of a 3D blanket wrapped around a 3D head. Here:

No, it's not a painting and it's not a 3D image either. It's a two dimensional image with a terrain map encoded into it by analog variation of the color density of the image. It is not, therefor, a photograph, having not been created by reflected light, in that there are no light artifacts observed. Nor are there any pigments, so it is not as you characterize it, a "painting."

Several software vendors offer products that turn a 2D flat image into a 3D computer model or 3D printing.

No, they cannot do what the Shroud does by mere conversion of intensity of light. Sorry. You are wrong. You are grasping at straws.

In any event, the original image on the Turin shroud or on a canvas or on a photographic print was not made by pressing the shroud/canvas/paper against the head/face, but from the perspective of an artist/photographer from a distance.

There you go again with you assumption of a Shroud being pressed against the body/face. Anyone who has studied the science and scholarship of the Shroud knows that was not the case. You keep repeating that mantra. The image on the cloth is so diffuse it cannot be seen close up... One has to be farther than fifteen feet away to discern it. No artist standing close enough to "paint" it could do so. . . especially to paint in the totally unknown concept of negativity . . . and perfect three dimensional perspective. By hand. Right. Sure. An art style never seen before or since and impossible to be duplicated even today.

This was covered in another thread: the problem with the software is twofold.

First is that it is merely the *appearance* of depth, with the aspect ratio of the 3-D detail to the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the image highly dependent on the settings used in the software; and the other issue is that nobody had software back when the Shroud was created -- nor when it is falsely accused of having been forged, either.

"If we had bacon, we could have bacon and eggs, if we had any eggs."

Cheers!

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