What are the criteria for reproducing the images?
Any attempt to reproduce the image on the Shroud of Turin must meet a significant number of criteria. Otherwise the Shroud's images have not been reproduced. These include:
| IMAGE CRITERIA | McCrone Craig Nickell |
Allen Picknett & Prince |
Wilson | Garlaschelli |
| Basic Technique: | Paint | Proto-Photograph | Masked Bleacing | Rubbing + Acid Etching |
| Dehydrated/Oxidized Carbohydrate | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Absence of inorganic paint or chemical | No | No | Yes | Maybe |
| High Resolution | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Full Scalable Compressed Grey Scale | Maybe | Maybe | No | Maybe |
| Photo-like Realism | Maybe | Yes | No | No |
| Real Blood Serum Rings/Clotting | No | No | No | No |
| No Image Beneath Bloodstain | Maybe | No | No | No |
| 3D Encoded (Height-Field) | No | No | No | No |
| Smooth Transition of Shading | No | No | No | No |
| Discontinuity of Color (Pixilated) | No | Maybe | No | Maybe |
- What attempts have been made to show how the images were faked?
- What is the Nicholas Allen Shroud Picture?
- What is the Shadow Shroud?
- What is the Garlaschelli Shroud?