The question I have about the shroud is that it appears to be a 2-D image rather than a 3-D image that would happen if it was actually wrapped around a body. The proportions look like what would be represented in a photo or painting or other flat object. So why aren’t the features significantly wider in proportion to the height, to account for the curvature of the body?
A small test we can all perform: Run a piece of string from one ear across the face to the other ear and mark it. Then put the string horizontally on a mirror and stand back and look at your own head in proportion to the length of the string. the string will be wider than the distance between your ears as viewed in the mirror.
Caveat - I’m not a scientist and I know there are a whole lot of FReepers smarter than I am, so if there’s a reason for proportions of the face on the shroud looking 2-dimensional, I’d be interested in learning about it.
Miracles contain their own inner logic.
“The question I have about the shroud is that it appears to be a 2-D image rather than a 3-D image that would happen if it was actually wrapped around a body. The proportions look like what would be represented in a photo or painting or other flat object. So why aren’t the features significantly wider in proportion to the height, to account for the curvature of the body?”
is it possible that the shroud was laid upon the body rather than wrapped around it, explaining the image’s 2-dimensional aspect vs. a 3-dimensional one?
My understanding is that the different depths and shape of impressions of the image are consistent with having been placed or wrapped around the body.
But it’s been a few years since my Shroud studies...
So why aren’t the features significantly wider in proportion to the height, to account for the curvature of the body?
They are wider. The distortion of the wrap has to be accounted for to see what the face actually looked like. There was a documentary that did so and revealed the actual face.
Recall from Scripture that there was also a separate cloth wrapped around the head of Christ.