[MGG]

The shroud is likely a creation of Da Vinci. Who, along with being no friend of The Vatican. Was also quite the practical joker and experimented with Optics.

[Mr. K]

Optics alone cannot explain the image.

You can get a close approximation of the image, but that’s easy- in fact there is a close approximation right here on this web site (the picture)

[Fresh Wind]

And how did Da Vinci do it?

[Swordmaker]

The shroud is likely a creation of Da Vinci. Who, along with being no friend of The Vatican. Was also quite the practical joker and experimented with Optics.

Uh, no. Leonardo Da Vinci was born 100 years after the Shroud of Turin was first put on display in Lirey, France. There is credible evidence that the Shroud was shown in 944 AD in Constantinople, Turkey, and before that as the Image of Edessa, folded only to show the face from back as far as 525AD.

Finally, the Shroud is NOT an artifact of light optics showing no such light generated shadowing that would be found from such exposure. It is, instead, a 3D contour map of the body it covered rendered represented by image density in 2D. No mere photograph can transfer such distance data so accurately.