Why an Atheist Thinks the Shroud of Turin is the Real Deal

The images, closely examined with the aid of microscopes

Halftone

The images, closely examined with the aid of microscopes and microphotography, appear similar to halftone images. It is easier to understand monochromatic halftone and since that shroud images are monochromatic, meaning they have only one color, we will ignore color images. Halftone, in the monochromatic sense, simply means that all the different shades of a color in a picture are produced from the quantity, size and spacing of tiny bits of a single color in any area of the picture.

The most common monochromatic halftones are black and white pictures in magazines and newspapers. Look closely at a picture in a newspaper and you will see that all the shades of gray are achieved with dots of black ink only. Halftone is also the way black and white pictures are printed on inkjet printers connected to home computers. With such printers, every shade of gray is produced by minuscule droplets of black ink. Where there are more droplets of ink the printed image is darker; where there are fewer droplets the image is lighter.