This work details the use of information commonly contained within the 2D texture map, of a colour 3D capture, as a driver to add additional geometric detail to the underlying 3D shape mesh. A novel combination of established 2D image processing operations and uniform mesh re-sampling facilitates the recovery of additional surface relief detail information which is then added a displacement bump map to the underlying mesh. The technique is demonstrated by enhancing shape from silhouette derived 3D surface captures. (1 page)