The thermal camera can now take B/W thermal stills!  If the temperature is higher than ambient, the pixel lights up hot.  Else, it stays dark.  The rough steps in the code are:

start I2C get all pixels

while 1:

output pixels

Now all I need to do is add an interrupt that calls the I2C start every 100ms, which is as fast as the camera updates.  This will start re-writing the image data and let the output be “live”!