"A 3D terrain map projection of the image color intensity. This is one of the most puzzling physical properties of the picture. Produced using a VP-8 Image Analyzer."
The graphic above, plus caption, is taken from the following site:
http://www.shroudstory.com/
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Has state-of-the art NASA image-analysing technology revealed TOO MUCH?
Reminder: here is the non-analysed image for reference (photographic positive on left, original negative on right). Note the 4 elongated diamond shaped intrusions- not there before the 1532 fire. So why do they map as 3D as well? Miraculous process that defies modern understanding? Or simply an artefact of too-clever-by-half 20th century computer-aided image processing?
And here's here's another computer-generated reconstruction from a different site.
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Notice anything unusual (body proportions, say head v torso?). I am by no means the first to comment on this discrepancy*, nor the suspicion/conclusion that may perhaps form in the mind of the sceptic, namely that the image was faked in two separate parts - the head and then the rest of the body. Shame they were not correctly matched...
* "The body to head ratio on the shroud is nearly 8 to 1. The normal ratio is 6 to 1. This anomaly, omitted from most shroud websites, could indicate that the forger may have sculpted the face, but used a second source, possibly a corpse, for the body. The forger inadvertently made the head too small in relation to the body and introduced this error. A primitive projection system, as the one described above, could have been employed."
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The 3D image arises from differences in hue caused by the different intensities of "burn-in" on the image, so that anything else that causes a gradation of hue (such as a burn mark) will produce a "3D effect" in an analysis that estimates depth based on hue. That explains it.
I agree totally. But there is an important consequence of that - namely that any image produce by thermography from a 3D object should produce a 3D terrain map by scanning image density. That would include heated bas-relief, statues etc.
The advantage of thermography, depending on contact and heat conduction, is that it does not require a lens or other imaging system, as would the "cloth at a distance" idea that Jackson has popularised.
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