12 Days of Thermal Riddles

[eliocor]

Fruit (apple?)

[capt bullshot]

The magic 8 ball

[frenky]

Christmas ball ornament

[Rerouter]

I'm going to take the obvious one and say an orange, or similar member of the citrus family,

[Vipitis]

so, I am late a little.

number 4 was a globe, a light up one... but it was really reflective - you can actually see my head(the lower dark spot).

[Vipitis]

I am late on this one as well. I had some fun with it... and I will try to find some subjects that are less round...

5/13

[Raj]

A part of a car dashboard

[capt bullshot]

Insulated piping and a pump (part of the central heating boiler)

[Vipitis]

I am getting late again. I had some issues transferring files from my phone to my computer and therefore don't have the nice pictures yet.

number 5 was my bicycle bell it is shiny metal and therefore is reflecting the night sky - the brighter spot is a reflection of myself. I used a custom color palette made with palette generator look at the attached screenshot.

[Vipitis]

6/12 by Ultrapurple

btw post #100

[Cerebus]

Too easy. A "Quality Street" tin with some of the sweets.

BTW, to bring it back to electronics momentarily, those make great screening cans for breadboarded circuits. A moment's work to punch a hole for a BNC or whatever.

[Vipitis]

Here is a backup 6/12 because the lower resolution makes it harder

[Vipitis]

There was no participation yesterday. But someone got it correct on Instagram. It is a 2by2 extention cord.

[Vipitis]

7/12

I believe this is a good one

[onesixright]

Any change of posting the original (non thermal) image if you have one?

Very funny how the imagination takes over 

Rorschach test?   

[Vipitis]

I can take a visual image of the same subject. This image isn't really taken as a thermal capture, more as a art piece to get a nice effect.

I don't usually drop hints but for this low resolution images, it's a trick to scale them down so your brain puts it together better and maybe see a pattern in the noise.

It does make a difference to me on a lot of my images and it's an effect I haven't read a paper about yet.

[Spirit532]

It does make a difference to me on a lot of my images and it's an effect I haven't read a paper about yet.

I've noticed that effect too, and it extends past still images.
If I capture something with my high-speed camera at 160x80 resolution and 60 000 fps and blow it up onto a 28" 4K display, it's practically impossible to determine what is in the image(even when moving!), but as soon as it's squeezed down into a tiny thumbnail size, it's much easier to understand.

Now to write a paper and get published in a scientific journal.

[frenky]

To me it looks something between roller coaster metal construction and mushrooms. 

[capt bullshot]

Looks like a car in the background and something else in the foreground.

[Vipitis]

It's inside my computer. I got sleeved tubes for water cooling. And you can see some wires in the background. 
I will put a visual image, just need to remind me

[Vipitis]

8/12

[The Soulman]

Ow no, peeing in the snow? 

[T3sl4co1l]

That's some warm snow, if so...

Tim

[capt bullshot]

A fence in the foreground, some houses in the background, in between - a cow peeing upwards to the sky 

[vinicius.jlantunes]

Maybe it's a bit cold to be someone peeing? But it does look like that for sure! 

It's very much like it's some liquid being poured, but looking closer I don't think it is the case. There seems to be like a tube coming out with hot liquid (the "pee stream") and a couple coming in from the lower part.

I will guess it's a circuit board with some liquid cooling system for whatever chip is under the bright spot. The other small warm spots around are not pee drops but other small chips that also get a bit warm.