I observed a heating plate at my husband’s laboratory. This is very similar to a stove top, but you can specify the temperature and it is automatically controlled. It has a sensor which reads the temperature. I took a very careful look at it in all different directions. It is a flat square with 16 nails on top of it and made with metal. It smells like a frying pan to me. It does not have any sound even if it is on. It feels very smooth and has very little texture. It is very sharp, hard and cold when it is off. Finally, I felt the heat as the temperature went up. The heat came from the top of the 16 nails. The heat was getting stronger with small and hard texture. My husband took two images of it for me using special cameras. One is an infrared image which shows the heat in terms of colors and the other is called a schlieren which shows gas density on top of the cell.
This is a transition of my multi sensory observation to a visual imaging of it.
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| infrared image (Heat interms of colors) |
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| schlieren (gas density on top of it) |
I love these images. They're really quite beautiful. I'm sure that there's some science that I'll never understand going on here, but I'm just drawn to it and have to say that I'm curious about what's going on. In that way, I think that you've found a neat way to blend the art and science together here.
ReplyDeleteNeat interpretation of our assignment! I too like your photos, artistic, a nice re-image of heat!
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