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EXPERIMENTS
Experimenting
with architectural patterns (below)
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Thermal images, like this
one of a
giraffe's legs, which shows false colors, from C23.5 (dark blue) to
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Experimenting
with perceived temperature ranges
There are three series of images in the three columns below.
Each series is based upon a single original thermal image that
has then been reinterpreted in a variety of 'false color palettes',
by resetting the upper and lower limits on their temperature
range. This has been done in a special piece of thermal image
analysis analysis software, that can read the buried temperature
data, hidden behind each pixel in the original captured
'thermograph'.
The lower to upper temperature range,
in Celsius, applied to each image, is shown below it.
On the left hand side, the
false color range has been used to effectively recolor a
'pattern' created by the interplay between a building's windows
and tree-branches in-front.
The middle column, of St Paul's
Cathedral, shows how different ranges can allow different
aspects of a building and its surrounding environment to be
pictured.
The right hand column shows
pictures of an okapi at London Zoo. Only the upper temperature
changes in these pictures. As the upper temperature in the
visible range steps up, picture by
picture, it is possible to discern what parts of the okapi are
registering hotter than this, as
these parts show up white.
Skilled thermographers
(specialists in using thermal cameras) are able to make much
finer temperature measurements in animals to aid many different
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8.5 to 20 |
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Minus 50 to Plus 10 - Hard Color Scale |
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Minus 50 to Plus 10 - Rainbow Scale |
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Minus 40 to Plus 20 - Hard Color Scale |
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Minus 15 to Plus 35 - Hard Color Scale |
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Minus 15 to Plus 25 - Hard Color Scale |
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Zero Centigrade to Plus 38 - Hard Color Scale |
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Minus 15 to Plus 25 - 'Ironbow' Scale |
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Architectural
patterns as inspiration for textiles and graphics
Much as architects might refer to other architecture, art and
the observations of past geniuses, such as Fibonacci, for
inspiration, the built environment can be great inspiration for
new textiles and graphics.
As stated on the More pages,
the picture to the right, which is of part of One Canada Square
at Canary Wharf, London, was adjusted and used as the source of
a basic repeating architectural pattern (below, left). This
basic pattern has then been manipulated to produce some of a
potentially infinite number of variations, on the same pattern
theme, which can be extracted from it.
Examples of what each
abstracted pattern looks like across a larger area can be found
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If you
click on any of the 'root' patterns above to see what they look look
when they are tiled into a larger pattern, you will note that,
as with all experiments, some work better than others. There are potentially an infinite number of ways that
a single 'root' pattern, in this case a detail from the facade
of a building, can be developed. Click here to get back to the
patterns section or here to get back to the
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Click here to get back to the
patterns section or here to get back to the
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Click here to get back to the
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Click here to get back to the
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Click here to get back to the
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Click here to get back to the
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Click here to get back to the
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Click here to get back to the
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Click here to get back to the
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Click here to get back to the
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Copyright for all images and text resides with Steve Lowe/ Thermalcities,
except where otherwise stated.
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