The Making of Enviroscan’s 2008 Holiday Card

Because our card idea for this year looks much better on screen than on paper, we have broken with long tradition and sent you an ecard.  As an added benefit, the ecard is in keeping with our new policy of minimizing paper by sending electronic proposals, reports and correspondence whenever possible.

The Infrared Thermograph

The Optical Photograph

Sharp-eyed observers will have already noticed that the snowman cannot possibly be made of snow.  The polymer characters were warmed in an oven. The snowman is a uniform temperature, but his metal eyes and nose appear cooler due to their low emissivity.

To make the nose (glass bead) glow, it needed to be much warmer than the body*.

*No actual reindeer or snowmen were harmed during production of this card.

The plastic Narnia lamp was placed in water and heated in a microwave oven, to make it glow as well.

The metal stars are the hottest objects in the thermograph, but appear cooler than they really are due to their low emissivity.

The cloth in the background is a double layer of quilts to insulate (and conceal) a cool refrigerator door surrounded by cabinets dramatically warmed by the air from the compressor coils.

The trees really are cool - having spent some time chillin’ with the butter and peas.

From childhood, many have fond memories of new toys during the holidays.

We never grew up.

Our new toys give us the capability to do thermal imaging, and there really are sensible geophysical and engineering uses for this technology.

Please call us, or visit our website, for more information.

www.enviroscan.com

Happy 2009 !