Shroud of Turin FAQ

. . . in referece to the wikipedia text, solar masking, or "shadow theory" what Wilson proposed, and tested, was this: Paint a picture on a piece of glass, put the glass over a piece of linen in the sun for several days, and voilą, a negative image emerges on the cloth that looks something like the Shroud of Turin face. It works because the painted picture on the glass acts as a mask preventing some of the cloth from the natural bleaching action of the sun. In other words, the image is unbleached, darker colored linen.

Wilson calls his creation the Shadow Shroud. In creating a picture that visually mimics two or three qualities of the Shroud, Wilson's method works. It works rather nicely. In fact, the movement of the sun over the painted picture on the glass -- a moving shadow -- creates an effect something like the so-called 3D encoding of the image on the Shroud. But that is as far as it goes. It is not three-dimensional at all.

the solar masking theory is deficient in several ways: See:

See superficiality problem for the shadow theory

See chemistry problem for the shadow theory

See bloodstains problem for the shadow theory

See historical problem for the shadow theory

 

phase-contrast photomicrograph of a fiber and its image bearing coating. The coating is composed of starch fractions and saccharides.
 

faint second face on backside of cloth; not possible with the shadow shroud theory.
 

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