The Turin Shroud : optical research in the past present and future international schools as agents for change / G. Fanti and R. Basso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fanti, G.

Contributor:

Basso, R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holy Shroud.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aim of this work is to summarise the important contribution furnished by Optics in the studies of the TS (Turin Shroud) made in more than a century of researches and tests.

Contents:

Intro

THE TURIN SHROUD:OPTICAL RESEARCH IN THE PAST,PRESENT, AND FUTURE

NOTICE TO THE READER

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

1.1. WHAT IS THE TURIN SHROUD

1.2. BRIEF HISTORY

1.3. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

1.4. OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS

1.5. BODY IMAGE FORMATION HYPOTHESES

1.6. OPTICAL RESEARCH: LIMITS AND PERSPECTIVES

OPTICAL RESEARCH: THE PAST

2.1. THE NEGATIVITY OF THE BODY IMAGEFROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF S. PIA OF 1989

2.2. THE ORTHOCHROMATIC ENRIE'SPHOTOGRAPHS OF 1931

2.3. The Multi-Spectral Judica Cordiglia's Photographs of 1969

2.4. THE M. FREI MICROSCOPICANALYSIS OF STICKY TAPES OF 1973

2.5. THE P. GASTINEAU PHOTO-RELIEF OF 1974

2.6. SOME OPTICAL ANALYSES MADEBY THE STURP IN 1978

2.6.A. X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

2.6.B. Low-Energy Radiography

2.6.C. Photoelectric Spectrometry

2.6.D. Thermographic Investigation

2.6.E. Reflected UV and Visible photography

2.6.F. Photography in Transmitted and Reflected Visible Light

2.6.G. Direct Macroscopic Visual Inspection

2.6.H. Direct Microscopic Visual Inspection

2.6.I. Microscopic Analysis of Sticky Tapes

2.6.J. 3-D Features of the Body Image

2.7. PHOTOMETRIC AND COLORIMETRICMEASUREMENTS BY ARTOM AND SOARDO IN 1978

2.8. PRESENCE OF COINS DETECTED FROM 1982?

2.9. PRESENCE OF INSCRIPTIONS?

2.10. THE PHOTO-RELIEF

2.11. THE POLARIZED IMAGE OVERLAY TECHNIQUE

OPTICAL RESEARCH: THE PRESENT

3.1. FTIR MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS

3.2. COMPUTERIZED BODY IMAGECLEANING AND RECONSTRUCTION

3.2.A. Contrast Enhancement

3.2.B. Image Cleaning

3.2.C. Image Reconstruction

3.3. COMPARISON OF IMAGES WRAPPING SOLIDS ANDEVALUATION OF A SHEET CONFIGURATION

3.3.A. Verification of the TS Body Image Wrapping

3.3.B. Evaluation of the Configuration of the TS Around the Man.

3.3.C. Correction of the Bloodstain Position in the Body Image

3.4. LUMINANCE ANALYSIS OF IMAGES

3.5. OPTICAL FILTERING TO EVIDENCE THE DOUBLESUPERFICIALITY OF THE BODY IMAGE

3.6. MTF TECHNIQUE APPLIED TO THE TS

3.7. DETAIL CHARACTERIZATIONBY MEANS OF COLOR ANALYSIS

3.8. COMPARISON OF IMAGES ACQUIREDWITH DIFFERENT LIGHT SPECTRA

3.9. IMAGES OVERLAPPING:OPTICAL DISTORTIONS AND DETAIL ANALYSIS

3.10. OPTICAL COMPARISON OFCOMPUTER GENERATED IMAGES

3.11. DISCUSSION

OPTICAL RESEARCH: THE FUTURE

4.1. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE AND WHAT WILL BE DONE?

4.2. Optics for the TS Conservation

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [77]-82) and index.

ISBN:

1-61668-122-5

OCLC:

923663144