I've taken an artist's impression from the English Heritage website of how Stonehenge may have looked shortly after completion, circa 2500BC, with those mighty but mysterious sarsen-stone lintels in place. The latter have been colour coded - yellow for the TOPS of the 5 arch-like trilithons, and pink for approx half of the TOPS of surrounding stone circle.
I've added a token seagull (sorry it's upside down!). Why? Because what you see is a bird's eye view of Stonehenge that conveys a crucial aspect of that unique and stunning structure, one that is not immediately obvious to a tourist or other visitor viewing from ground level.
STONEHENGE IS ESSENTIALLY A GIANT PERCH FOR BIRDS!
Why? Followers of this blog will be aware of the scientific "model" that has been developing here and on my specialist Stonehenge/Silbury Hill site these last 6 years.
I believe that Stonehenge was created as a "pre-crematorium", where the newly deceased were first subject to what is euphemistically termed "sky burial", aka excarnation, aka de-fleshing. (Or, as I prefer to call it, AFS (avian-facilitated skeletonization) - as still practiced in Tibet and elsewhere.
More to follow.
Addendum: March 16, 2018
Sorry to repeat myself, but I've decided to add the same image you see above as an addendum to ALL my Stonehenge postings (some 24 in all, here and on my specialist Stonehenge site). Why not – since it’s my considered answer to the ‘mystery’ of the monument’s peculiar architecture, the conclusion to some 6 years of deliberation?
Reminder*
I say Stonehenge was designed as a giant bird perch, a ceremonial monument dedicated to ‘sky burial’, i.e. soul release from mortal remains to the heavens via AFS (avian-facilitated skeletonization, considered the height of fashion (and practicality) in Neolithic-era 2500BC! The stripped remains were then cremated, so an apt description of Stonehenge might, as previously suggested, be PRE-CREMATORIUM.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Non, il n'y a rien d'unique dans les soi-disant propriétés 3D du Suaire de Turin! C'est une propriété générale de toutes les images imprimées! Même les taches de sang et les marques de rousseur répondent!
Affichage en construction.
Étant donné qu'il n'y a pas de différence évidente dans la réponse 3D - tous réagissent à un logiciel préprogrammé qui convertit simplement la densité de l'image (peu importe son acquisition) en hauteur sur une troisième dimension entièrement imaginaire, autrement dit la hauteur sur un nouvel axe z. J'espère que cet article dissipera une fois pour toutes la prétention que la réponse de l'image corporelle du Suaire de Turin dans les programmes informatiques de rendu 3D est unique ou différente à tous égards de celle d'autres empreintes, ou même de peintures .
On peut spéculer sur les raisons des différences de densité d'image sur l'image corporelle TS. Bien que l'on puisse supposer ou non que l'image originale et /ou 3D ait été dérivée d'un sujet 3D par un mécanisme ou un autre (impression par contact, photographie), on n'a pas le droit de conclure que la 3D-ness alléguée de l'image améliorée dit quelque chose sur la 3D-ness du sujet d'origine.
Oui, il est plus que probable que le 'sujet' soit 3D, ou peut-être un bas-relief, mais n'a pas besoin d'être dans le but de générer une réponse 3D dans un logiciel de rendu 3D approprié qui n'a aucun moyen de connaître l'histoire du sujet, ou connaissant la distance entre l'image et le sujet au moment de la capture de l'image.
Preuve? On peut faire une image grossière de l'image corporelle TS, et montrer qu'elle répond aussi étonnamment bien au logiciel de rendu 3D, bien que l'esquisse n'ait aucune histoire 3D.
Résumé: Le logiciel de rendu 3D répond simplement aux différences de densité d'image, et ne dit RIEN sur la manière dont ces différences ont été acquises, que ce soit par simple impression par contact ou par des moyens plus exotiques revendiqués par certains en sindonologie.
Here's a series of photographs showing 3D renderings of a range of images - starting with simple ones created on a computer with no 3D history, and ending with ones that do.
Given there's no obvious difference in the 3D response - all of them responding to pre-programmed software that simply converts image density (no matter how acquired) to height on an entirely imaginary third dimension, i.e. height on a new z axis above the original xy plane - I hope this posting will dispel once and for all the claim that the response of the Turin Shroud body image in 3D-rendering computer programs is in any way unique, or different in any important respects from that of other imprints, or even paintings.
One can speculate as to the reasons for the differences in image density on the TS body image. While one may or may not suppose the original and/or 3D-rendered image to have been derived from a 3D subject by one or other mechanism (contact imprinting, some kind of photography) one is not entitled to conclude that the alleged 3D-ness of the enhanced image tells one anything about the 3D-ness of the original subject.
Yes, it's more than probable that the 'subject' was 3D, or possibly a bas relief, but did not need to be in order to generate a 3D-response in appropriate 3D-rendering software that has no way of knowing the history of the subject, or knowing the distance between image and subject at the moment of image capture.
Evidence? One can make a crude sketch image of the TS body image, and show that it too responds surprisingly well to 3D-rendering software, despite the sketch having no 3D history whatsoever.
Summary: 3D rendering sofware simply responds to differences in image density, and tells one NOTHING about the manner in which those differences were acquired, whether by simple contact imprinting or more exotic means that are claimed by some in sindonology.
1. Vue dorsale frontale du Suaire de Turin (Shroud Scope) avec contraste ajouté (Frontal v dorsal views of Turin Shroud body image from Shroud Scope with added contrast) |
2. Comme ci-dessus, après le rendu 3D dans le logiciel ImageJ. As above, after 3D-rendering in ImageJ software |
8. Une empreinte de farine de ma propre main a été utilisée pour produire cette image 3D de type Suaire |
12. Voici la page de titre de la publication actuelle sur mon site de blog Shroud spécialisé Here's the title page of the current posting on my specialist Shroud blogsite |
https://shroudofturinwithoutallthehype.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/how-40-years-of-pseudoscience-and-digital-tomfoolery-deftly-morphed-an-imaginative-14th-century-modelling-of-joseph-of-arimatheas-up-and-over-fine-linen-sheet-probably-intended/
Update, October 11, 2018
Here's a link to the current posting placed on my specialist Shroudie site!
https://shroudofturinwithoutallthehype.wordpress.com/2018/10/05/no-mr-barrie-m-schwortz-sturp-did-not-provide-an-example-that-future-shroud-researchers-can-use-to-carefully-plan-their-own-work-sturp-showed-how-not-to-plan-or-execute-objectiv/
(Yes, I take STERA's President to task for holding up the 1978 STURP enterprise as a model of good science! It was anything but - as a read of the inconclusive mealy-mouthed 1981 Summary will demonstrate, given its focus on the strawman 'just a painting' hypothesis, with no mention whatsoever of the unusual negative tone-reversed image. The latter should by rights have prompted STURP to shine the spotlight on imaging via direct-contact imprinting (instead dismissed in a few half-baked tests and negative conclusions).
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