Could an artist produce a 3-D drawing by putting a cloth over someones head and drawing on the cloth?
There are many theories offered to explain the 3-D phenomenon of the Shroud image. Joe Nickel, magician and professional Shroud antagonist claims it can be done using an iron oxide rubbing over a bas relief of the shroud image. Yet Walter McCrone, microscopist and another Shroud antagonist strongly disagrees with Nickel’s theory. McCrone doesn’t offer any theories of his own except that the image is made of red ochre paint, iron oxide suspended in a thin binder solution. McCrone hired different artists to try to create the Shroud image in such a manner and all their attemps failed to satisfy even the basic criteria required to emulate the Shroud image. The most glaring is the fact that in all of McCrone’s hired copies the liquid soaks through the cloth. This is not the case with the Shroud image as it is penetrates only the top two microfibers. Both McCrone and Nickel offer woefully insufficient alternatives to the authenticity of the Shroud. If it really is an artwork, why can’t anyon
