Images of the three component models for the mid-infrared emission at 12.0 μm of the nuclear region of NGC 1068 corresponding to model 1 (left) and model 2 (right). The image was scaled using the square root of the brightness. Center: comparison between our first best model and the 12.5 μm image of Bock et al. (2000), taken with the 10 m Keck Telescope. The dashed circles represent the FWHM of the field of view for MIDI using the UTs (blue) or the ATs (orange). The letters indicate the positions of the [OIII] clouds according to Evans et al. (1991).