Hypothesis of face-cloth wrapping of the Turin Shroud Man: experimental and numerical results

Studies of sheets with the Turin Shroud (TS) body image impressed in them, wrapping a life-size sculpture of the TS Man very recently realized by the sculptor Sergio Rodella, allowed to made a preliminary hypothesis of how the TS was posed over the Man. In particular from the preliminary results obtained by wrapping only the face, and measured by means of a 3D scanner, it results that the TS wrapped the TS Man in a more tight way with respect to some hypotheses proposed in the past. A very preliminary numerical simulation of the face wrapping is also presented. If confirmed by additional studies performed along the whole body of the life-size sculpture of the TS Man, these results will be interesting if considered to try to refine the various body image formation hypotheses that, up to now, are not able to explain in the whole the very peculiar features of the TS body image.