The VP8 Image Analyzer[1][2] is an analog computer produced by Pete Schumacher of Interpretations Systems Incorporated (ISI) in 1972.[3][4][5] An analog computer simply processes an image and provides the result - the output cannot be manipulated, unlike digital computers.
The VP8 makes a brightness map of whatever data it processes - white appears to be higher in elevation, black appears lower and mid-range appears between these two extremes.[6][7] The VP8 does not create 3D images, but rather creates brightness maps. It was delivered by Schumacher to John Jackson's basement and when they processed the image through the VP8, the results they saw were extraordinary.[8] Air Force Academy Professors John Jackson and Eric Jumper (future members of the STURP team) who used it to analyze the Shroud of Turin and used the data from that analysis to create a cardboard model of the Shroud.[9] When the VP8 processes the data from the Shroud, the result is a 3-Dimensional image.[10]
The work of Jackson, Jumper and Schumacher prove that the image on the Shroud of Turin is encoded with 3-Dimensional data. What is most interesting about this image is that it resides on the very top 1 or 2 microfibers of the fiber. The image exists because the cellulose of these top microfibers dehydrated or aged differently than the rest of the cloth. Modern science does not understand the process by which the image on the Shroud was formed and all duplication efforts have all failed to duplicate all the peculiar properties of the Shroud of Turin image.[11][12][13]