Shroud of Turin - Negative And Positive Face Images

SHROUD OF TURIN - NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE FACE IMAGES

Last Updated : July 23, 2006

On the left side of this image, we see the Shroud of Turin
as it normally appears to the human eye, albeit with
computer enhancement. In reality, the image on the cloth is
rather dim. On the right side is a photographic negative of
the same Shroud. This allows us to get a better idea of what
the person may have actually looked like in real life. This
is because the image on the Shroud was mysteriously etched
there in a negative form, just like a phototgraphic
negative; so it was necessary to reverse it, in order to
determine what the person who was wrapped in the Shroud, may
have looked like. In other words, a negative was created of
the negative on the Shroud, in order to produce a normal
'positive' image, in which light and dark contrast are
situated in the right places. Despite their various
endeavors to do so, modern science has yet to satisfactorily
explain how the image on the Shroud was created.