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WHAT
IS IT ALL ABOUT?
Thermalcities.com looks at the world of thermal imagery on
behalf of ordinary people. Set up originally to show how London
looked through the lens of a thermal imaging camera, it is now being
very slowly revised.
The aim now is to show much more about the technology for people who do not wear a uniform. This will include
more imagery from others, of the world around us. There will
also be much more experimental stuff: ranging
from monitor backgrounds based on the thermal images to news on
experiments with the technology by scientists and artists. |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Thanks to the loan of a thermal imaging camera
from FLIR Systems, Thermalcities
has a large pool of decent original thermal images of to
present. Thanks also to people associated with: Canary Wharf;
Centre Point; London Zoo and Tower Hamlets Town Hall for
allowing access to take the pictures. Finally, special thanks
are due to The British National Space Centre; Horton Levi Ltd; Hot Mapping Limited
and an increasing number of other contributors who have kindly
allowed their work to be reproduced on this site, as cited on the relevant pages. |
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NEWS
This site was
originally a contribution to the
in 2008, as
This web site's images have since been seen by many
thousands, reproduced in newspapers, museum exhibits, text
books, school projects and across the Internet. Original images
from this site also show up in searches as if owned by others.
The claims of others to these images are false and, one day,
legal action may be taken against them. You, however, are
welcome to reproduce original images from this site for
non-commercial, educational purposes, provided thermalcities.com
is appropriately cited. In all other cases permission must be
sought. Thermalcities would also love to show more work from
others and we will respect the interests of contributors. To
make contact about permissions or contributions, please check
out the About page.
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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.
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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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