Second pass - Levels of engagement and practices for the infrared scope - Sam S.

Levels of Engagement:
1. Guests simply look into the scope.
2. Guests look into the scope and compare with scope visual normal-eye visual of the same area.
3. Guests use the button to switch camera views and different levels of zoom.
4. Guests look for the location of cameras and observe the structure of the viewer.


Observations:
Observations associated with the first two levels of engagement consist of guests using their sense of sight to see the range of colors in the scope's display, then comparing the scope's color range to normal vision. As they begin to engage deeper, they may start to notice patterns in colors, and what different objects or areas correlate to purple, orange, or yellow. They may notice that shadows are a darker purple, while cars can vary based on which way they are facing, and people and the road are a lighter orange or yellow. They may notice that any correlation between colors in the scope and colors in real life is very weak. As they engage further, they may associate colors in the scope with certain parts or orientations of objects; the tires of a car are orange or yellow (hotter), while the rims are darker (cooler), and the undercarriage of a car is even lighter. The train tracks are almost always in the sun, and the gravel and wood railroad ties show up lighter. These observations can eventually lead them to conclude that the colors in the scope depict different heat signatures. Further observations may include grappling with the anomalous behavior of metal objects, which reflect infrared waves.

Questions:
- What am I looking at?
- Is the image I'm looking at in the scope happening at the same time in reality?
- Why are different objects different colors? Do they relate to the colors of things in real life?
- What are the differences between the two zoom levels?
- How are these images being produced? Is there a lens? Is there a camera? Where are the cameras?
- Why do different parts of cars or people show up as different colors in the camera?
- I there anything I can see in the camera that I can't see at all with my eyes?
- Do different materials appear as different colors?
- Okay, so it seems that the materials are related to heat. How does that work? How are the cameras seeing heat?

- Sam S.