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In
1898, Secundo Pia took the first
photograph of the Shroud. On the negative
he could observed the amazing image of the
man.
Left,
negative of the photography taken by Enrie
in 1933. The image on the cloth is kind of
a "negative". Thus, the real photographic
negative shows a "optic positive"
of the man of the Shroud.
This photographic analysis already points
to the possibility that the image, no matter
how it was formed, was produced by a real
body.
One
of the most striking characteristic of the
image is that it encodes three-dimensional
information, something that can not be found
in paintings or photographs. When
processed the image with an image analyzer
able to extract the three-dimensional information,
(everybody can do it with the appropriate
computer software) it shows a human body in
3-D. The body parts that were closer to the
cloth can been seen in relief from the parts
more distant to it. The intensity of the image
is inversely proportionate to the body-cloth
distance in each point: the image is darker
(lighter in the negative) in those areas where
the distance body-cloth was smaller. This
rule is mathematically true for the entire
image, and it has been calculated that the
distance between the body and the cloth could
not have been more than 3.5 cm. From this
analysis it can be easily concluded that the
image was not a result of direct contact between
body and cloth, in that case we would only
have today the image of the body parts directly
in contact with the Shroud. |
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