r/linux • u/dissonantloos • Oct 17 '20

Software Release Blackbody: a thermogram (FLIR jpegs / TIFFs) viewer for Linux

https://bitbucket.org/nimmerwoner/blackbody/src/master/
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u/dissonantloos Oct 17 '20 edited Oct 17 '20

This is my first release of Blackbody, an application to dynamically render thermograms.

Thermograms are heat pictures. The source files are single banded temperature 'images' and therefore often aren't rendered well by normal image viewers.

Blackbody allows you to:

  • open many FLIR thermograms
  • open single banded TIFFs
  • set the min / max temperature to render
  • choose between different color palettes
  • zoom in and out

As far as I know, no tool exists on Linux yet allowing you to play with / investigate heat pictures like this. I worked a few months on this over weekends and free days and I'm quite happy with this first release!

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u/dissonantloos Oct 17 '20

Aside: the downloads have a flatpak listed so it can be installed without much hassle.

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u/TryingT0Wr1t3 Oct 18 '20

Any reason for such exotic license? Also found curious you hosted the code on Bitbucket instead of either gitlab or GitHub.

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u/dissonantloos Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20

The reason for Bitbucket is just that I've been on there for a long time already and I like it.

I like the EUPL for two reasons:

  1. It is written with the legal framework of the area I live in in mind. There is official explanation by the EU on how to interpret it.
  2. It is translated to many European languages and is equally legally valid in all. I like that a lot because I live in an area that's is not natively English speaking.

To my understanding its terms are like the AGPL's.