The
image is really a 3D topographic image that acts like photographic
negative.
 In
1976, research physicists Dr. John Jackson and Dr. Eric Jumper along
with The Rev Dr. Kenneth Stevenson, Giles Charter, and Peter Shumacher,
examined a photograph of the Shroud in the Interpretation Systems VP-8
Image Analyzer at the Sandia Scientific Laboratories in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. To their complete surprise it produced a 3D image. The
photograph of the Shroud, unlike any photograph of a drawing or
painting, was "dimensionally encoded."
 A normal
black and
white photograph (or monochrome photograph of any single color) is an image of varying amounts of reflected light. Light
colored surfaces approach white and dark surfaces tend towards black.
The Shroud, however, is a "graph" of proximity of the
fabric to the body. At the same time, it acts
like a photographic negative. Closeness appears darker (a
scorched-linen color) and distance is lighter. The tip of the
nose is dark because it was close to or touching the linen at the time
the image was formed. The recesses of the eyes, being farther away, are
lighter. Some dark areas on the Shroud are not part of the image but actually
blood stains. These are particularly noticeable on the forehead in the above
picture.
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Peter
Shumacher, the inventor of the NASA VP-8 Image
Analyzer, describes the discovery of the 3D image.
He had has just finished installing a system for Dr. John
Jackson of the Sandia Scientific Laboratories:
Jackson placed an image of the Shroud of Turin onto the light table of the system. He
focused the video camera of
the system on the image. When the pseudo-three-dimensional image display ("isometric display") was activated,
a "true-three-dimensional image" appeared on the monitor. At least, there were main traits of real three-dimensional
structuring in the image displayed. The nose ramped in relief. The facial features were
contoured properly. Body
shapes of the arms, legs, and chest, had the basic human form. The result from the VP-8 had never occurred with any
of the images I had studied, nor had I heard of it happening during any image studies done by others.
I had never heard of the Shroud of Turin before that moment. I had no idea what I was looking at. However, the
results were unlike anything I have processed through the VP-8 Analyzer, before or since. Only the Shroud of Turin
has produced these results from a VP-8 Image Analyzer isometric projection
study.
From "Photometric
Responses from the Shroud of Turin"
by Peter Shumacher, a technical paper archived at
shroud.com.
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 Paintings,
drawings, photographs and other artistic techniques fail
to produce detailed three dimensionality. An ancient
or medieval artist would have needed to
produce a technically accurate elevation with varying
monochrome shades. Detail is so fine as to include
scourge marks, abrasions, floral images and, possibly,
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