"Conclusion: The "Shroud" is a beautiful painting created about 1355 for a new church in need of a pilgrim-attracting relic."Try to keep up here. The very idea that it was a painting was shot down in 1978 during the first day or two of the STURP team's investigation. McCrone, by the way, is an utter idiot. Go look at some previous threads where I've discussed this at length for more details, or look here.
Though their is blood evidence, it still doesn't prove that it wasn't painted. My problem with the whole thing is that it is TOO perfect an image..i.e., no creases distorting the image, the image is balanced in the middle of the cloth (a little guessing here).
I'd be measuring the distances from each feature to the edges, etc. I do think it is clever though.