Martin SutherlandSo, I rented a FLIR thermal imaging camera for the weekend, for the serious purpose of checking the windows and overall insulation of our house.
But you can also take cat pictures with this thing.
logBoy@sunpig I borrowed one from a friend for the same reason this week. I found that you can see your reflection in the window in infrared! This shot is in full daylight, to the naked eye my reflection is nearly invisible
SilkesterThermography of the house and the story it tells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBqEe8IHsuI
The video is in German but youTubes AI-Translation may help, if your German is insuficient.
Darum funktioniert die Fassadendämmung nicht (Konrad Fischer)
draeath@ln @sunpig it really is mind-bending to think about how radiated heat, radio, etc are all just light. It all does the same things - reflects, refracts, etc. It just does it at different scales.
Your wifi router's antennas are like glow sticks, flashing complex patterns at stupidly fast rates, for example, and that "light" is interacting with everything around it!
Feyter@draeath @ln @sunpig I think wifi is using frequency modulation and amplitude modulation.
So I would argue it's not flashing in that sense. It's more changing color and getting dimmer on incredibly fast speeds. But, yes light seams so simple and yet our understanding of reality is falling apart, once we think about it a little longer.
@ln I saw that as well! It's very neat :-)