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THE BEGINNING In the 1970’s I operated a commercial photographic studio in Santa Barbara, California, with clients in the engineering, scientific and medical fields. In 1976, I was asked by Don Devan, a scientist from a local imaging company, to work with them as a photographic consultant on a project for Los Alamos National Laboratory. After seven months we completed the work and I went back to my normal routine. 4
THE BEGINNING On February 19, 1976, physicist John Jackson met with William Mottern, a radiographic expert and researcher working at Sandia Laboratories in New Mexico. Bill was using a device known as a VP-8 Image Analyzer for analyzing x-rays in his own research. However, the VP-8 was an image processing tool that allowed any image to be input via video camera. So the researchers input a 1931 Enrie photograph of the Shroud and, by using the instrument’s ability to convert image density to vertical relief, were able to visualize on the VP-8’s green screen monitor the rather amazing natural relief of a human form, demonstrating that, completely unlike normal photographs or artworks, certain spatial or topographic data was encoded into the Shroud’s image. After sharing the VP-8 results with his colleagues, it was quickly decided that this warranted further study. Ironically, at about this same time, Prof. Giovanni Tamburelli in Turin was using a computer program to perform a similar analysis of the Shroud image. 5
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Page 3: INTRODUCTION STURP had the distinct
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Page 10 and 11: Joseph S. Accetta, Lockheed Corpora
Page 12 and 13: STURP PREPARES FOR TURIN - THE “D
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Page 24 and 25: Informal group portrait of the STUR
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Page 29 and 30: Comparing Technologies at the Sindo
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Page 45 and 46: The Team meets in the Shroud Examin
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Tom D’Muhula, John Jackson and Do
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The Scientific Examination of the S
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Max Frei applied commercial sticky
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John Jackson strongly protested to
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As the cloths were unstitched, I re
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Prof. Giovanni Riggi & Gabriele Por
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Prof. Giovanni Riggi and his team p
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Prof. Giovanni Riggi’s endoscopic
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Vernon Miller using Hasselblad came
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UV Fluorescence Photograph of Spear
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Photomicroscopy Mark Evans 77
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32X Photomicrograph of the Shroud s
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Magnets mark the specific test poin
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Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy I
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Joseph Accetta calibrates blackbody
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Roger and Marty Gilbert, Oriel Corp
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William Mottern and Ronald London r
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The “Darkroom” 91
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X-ray courtesy William Mottern Coll
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Ray Rogers and Robert Dinegar used
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Custom well slides were fabricated
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CONCLUSIONS OF THE STURP TEAM ...Th
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