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To: Mathemagician
The result is a spooky image identical to that on the shroud of Turin.

Sorry, Wilson's technique does not duplicate the Shroud and it is certainly not identical. It is a good attempt but it is only superficially similar to the Shroud's image.

Wilson's technique is based on an artist painting a perfect, semi-transparently gradiated picture on glass which then shadows the linen below while the sun bleaches the unshadowed linen. He assumes the image on the shroud is a light photograph... it is not. It is a countour or terrain map of the shroud's distance from the body... and attempts to duplicate a photographic effect.

If it were mere bleaching, the image on the shroud would have long ago been bleached to obscurity by the sun bleaching the image portion of the shroud to match the non-image portion over years' of exposure.

In addition, one of the first things learned about the image was that it existed only on the top most fibers and that it is not contiguous as would be any bleaching. Sun bleaching reaches inside the weave and extends to areas the image does not on the real shroud. We know what the image is composed of... and it is not bleached linen. It is a chemical Maillard reaction with starch fractions coating the surface of the fiber. Microscopic examination of the fibers of Wilson's image will show that they do not compare to Shroud fibers.

Wilson's technique also does not address the existance of the faint, but unmistakable, second face image on the BACK of the shroud, which registered exactly with the frontal image, and which could not have been accomplished by sun bleaching the front.

The Shroud is not made by sun bleaching, nor does Wilson's technique cover all of the details found in the Shroud. It is just another failed attempt to duplicate it.

14 posted on 03/11/2005 9:13:39 AM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Counour = contour
15 posted on 03/11/2005 9:15:12 AM PST by Swordmaker
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