Today, we take a look at these new details about the Shroud of Turin.C. This is true for both the frontal and dorsal images. New details emerge that confirm that the shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus. What the Shroud mysteriously does seem to retain is information about the distance the cloth was from parts of the body it rested on as well as parts of the body it was not in direct contact with. An Italian professor has created a 3D image of Jesus based off of the Shroud of Turin, claiming that it is the 'precise image of what Jesus looked like on this earth.' Giulio Fanti, teacher of mechanical and thermal measurements at the University of Padua who has studied the Shroud for several years, unveiled the 3D image last week. The Shroud of Turin does not retain any of that 'draping cloth shape' either. Using a 3D scan of a statue of the Man of the Shroud and a photo of the Shroud taken in 1978, the team created an app that allows guests to see how the Shroud. When you remove the cloth from the body, it straightens out and doesn't retain any of that 3D body shape information. However, if you drape it over a body, it will assume the approximate shape of that body. The Shroud is somehow in between a picture and a statue.Ī cloth, like the Shroud, is a 2D object because it's flat. Consider the Mona Lisa, for example. No matter how you move when looking at her, you'll never see her profile or the back of her head.Ī sculpture is different. With a sculpture you can move around and see it from all sides - it has 3D information. That information is 2D because it's flat. In simplest terms, one can consider a painting or a photograph a 2D image which gives 2D information about its subject matter.

Whether the Shroud proves to be 1st century or medieval, this kind of information is unexpected in an ancient linen.īut what is the difference between 3D and 2D information? Encoded on the fibrils of the cloth is what appears to be 3D information about the shape of the body it may have enveloped. There is a unique property of the Shroud of Turin which caught the attention of 3D computer graphics artist Ray Downing.

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