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WHAT'S
IT ALL ABOUT?
To look at London from a FRESH! (Thermal) perspective. Had the
idea of borrowing and experimenting with a state of the art
thermal imaging camera, out and about in London, to see if
anything interesting could be captured and then presented on a
non-engineering website.
THERMAL CITIES:
LONDON - NEWS
26 July > The festival has closed and, as time allows this
site will slowly repurpose itself per the vision expressed in
the ABOUT page. .. More
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Thanks to the loan of a hugely expensive thermal imaging camera
from FLIR Systems ThermalCities
has a large pool of decent original thermal images of London to
present. Thanks also to people associated with: Canary Wharf;
Centre Point; London Zoo and Tower Hamlets Town Hall for
allowing access, quite a few of these images were also taken
from interesting vantage points. Finally, further thanks are
also due to: The British National Space Centre; FLIR Systems
Ltd; Horton Levi Ltd & Hot Mapping Limited for
additional quality information and imagery. More details soon on the ABOUT
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A composite of
multiple thermal images taken at noon, New Years Eve, 2007, of
the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge |
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Another
composite, same bridge and time as above, of people gathering
for the Millennium Wheel fireworks display at midnight |
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Another
composite of the Millennium Wheel; Thames and Parliament . This
was taken on 27 December looking west, using a temperature
spectrum that captured the buildings' silhouettes against the
fractal patterns of the clouds. |
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MORE
THERMAL CITIES: LONDON NEWS
26 July> Two new composite
thermal images added: 1 to home page and Giraffe to ANIMALS
page. 16 July > Pictures and notes on thermal bridges added to
Practical Applications page. 13 July 2008> New subsections uploaded to the Experiments
page.
First small
screen image uploaded to More page.
12 July 2008 > Small versions of two major new 'thermal
panoramas' placed on home page.
7 July 2008 > Gorilla images placed on home page - now
on Animal Page
6 July 2008> Energy! page launched with first material
on the energy-efficiency of buildings and transport.
New space image
added to Air and Space Page.
New thermal images of London
buildings from British Gas added to Home and Buildings pages.
1 July 2008> Practical Applications page launched with
material on the aerial thermal mapping of cities.
20 June 2008 > Launch material
put up on the
website .. Home; Buildings, People and Animals; Air and Space;
Patterns and Form; About the Technology, and About Thermal
Cities pages populated with initial content.
More updates coming soon.
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Thermal image
above of a government building in London's Victoria Street.
Source: British Gas |
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| London's
Tower Bridge and City Hall, as captured by a
thermal imaging camera on a cold, sunny winter day.
The Sun's heat is reflected and radiated by the
buildings, whilst the cloudless sky is a cold, dark blue.
This picture, purely of detected heat, comprises several
thermal images, knitted together, to provide a
broad field of view.
To the
right
is a single thermal image of St. Paul's Cathedral, reinterpreted
in four different heat-colour spectrums, each of which reveals
something slightly different about the heat that can be
discerned. This kind of exploration, with buildings, machines,
people and images is explored much further throughout the site.
Below is a small sample of the basic 'artistic' and
'curio' thermal images captured during the several days
that FLIR Systems were kind enough to lend a camera
for.
Many more
images will be added in the coming weeks to the dozens
of other images that already exist on this website's
home and other pages. |
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SAMPLE
'THERMAL CITIES: LONDON' IMAGES FOLLOW
ALL BASE
IMAGES WERE CAPTURED OVER THE 2007 CHRISTMAS BREAK
MANY MORE
SAMPLES ARE PRESENTED ON OTHER PAGES
HERE ARE
SOME OF THE MORE IMPRESSIONISTIC EARLY FINISHED IMAGES
ALL ARE
PURELY REPRESENTATIONS OF DETECTED HEAT
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The
images above were of, respectively:
Centre
Point Tower
Tate Modern (x2)
Euston Road (x2)
Embankment
St Paul's
Canary Wharf (x3)
Many more
images are to be added to this
site, just as soon as they are prepared
from the 'base image set' captured.
(More about this on the About page)
Many more 'artistic', 'curio' and educational
images are already up on other pages
Sample
'curio' images follow:
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London's
Tottenham Court Road from the top of Centre-Point Tower.
Winter 2007
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The
Millenium Wheel at Noon, New Year's Eve, 2007
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People
posing with Madame Tussauds' waxwork of Simon Cowell
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Getting
on a bus at Canary Wharf. Winter 2007
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Cold
and colder beer at the Minories Pub in London
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This
website will present a growing array of imagery, explanatory notes and
educational outreach resources.
Check back and see what is
new often.
Should you like what you see, please also feel free to
hyperlink to this home page.
Should you have any information or pictures
of relevance to contribute, we will be
extremely happy to explore any
material you have to add.
More details about this can be found on the
'About' page
Now go check out all the other stuff on this website's many other pages!
Then, if you have not already done so, check out the London Festival
of
Architecture's website to learn of 600 other exhibitions, happenings
and lots of other stuff in the REAL world, by clicking on their
banner, above.
Copyright for all images and text resides with Steve Lowe/ Thermalcities,
except where otherwise stated.
Copyright 2008. All rights reserved
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