the shroud of turin

i was just watching a documentary about the shroud of turin on the history channel the other day...

this particular relic has always vexed me, entirely.

do any of you have any opinions as to it's authenticity?

personally, i think it's a painting.

you can't wrap a blanket around a three-dimensional, and moderately angular form, and get a straight-on portrait of the object.

the image you see on the shroud looks like a scanned image of a human body.

now, what it SHOULD look like is a texture map from a videogame. all warped, and distorted. christ's face should be roughly twice as wide.

ya' get my drift?

of course, the believers would have an answer for why it doesn't look that way, right?

please, throw in your two cents...