Cheesy Animation Alert: Nuke

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hello,

this is a very humble attempt at animating a typical nuclear explosion…
It looks totally cheesy and unrealistic, but the thing is it’s a long time since i last saw a nuclear explosion :slight_smile:

Please tell me the MOST OBVIOUS things that are wrong about the animation, so I can go improving it :slight_smile:

(I know a few things already, i’m working on it :slight_smile:

http://intrr.org/nuke.avi

(800 kB)

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Okay, one problem, which may ruin your entire project. Nuclear fireballs rise to almost their full height in several milliseconds. They then rise further into the atmosphere. Not really much you can do on those time frames. The resulting shockwave travels faster than the speed of sound. There are also several levels of power. One could have an explosion like


for a smaller bomb, to a full out thermonuclear explosion like:
http://www.batguano.com/nuclear/34.jpg
and some are over water, like this:

http://www.batguano.com/nuclear/32.jpg
32.jpg600×749

Good luck.
(Thank you all the sites I linked to)
you can look at the research and some nice cg movies at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/b-cam/Papers/Feldman_2003_ASP/index.html
-SamAdam

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Ew, I guess I should watch some real videos of nuclear explosions first… will search the web for some :slight_smile:

The rest: Please don’t laugh :slight_smile:

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BTW: Maybe I should add that you can now buy nuclear weapons on E-Bay:

http://db.intrr.org/buy-nuclear-weapons.gif

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…Nuclear weapons over eBay, eh? I’ll… be… right back… I’m… just gonna… go to the… bank, now…

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Ebay, that’s where I bought mine. BTW, my skin is feeling reallll weirrrdddd. I think it could be the bbomb, it’s sitting under my bed, I figured noone would notice it there.

MMM, Gamma radiation, my favorite flavor!

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Aren’t you all impressed by those wonderful wannabe-searchengines which interfere with your REAL search results?

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you have not yet upgraded to mozilla firefox? It’s, like, 1% better!

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and 1% is realy great, you should see the difference, now the icon is an orange fox around a blue planet… great…

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Firefox is definately better than IE. I IE it would crash a lot. Not to mention it was slow as me!

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LOLL And Bush was searching and searchin in Iraq, but he couldn’t find any weapon.

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well if ya type ‘weapons of mass destruction’ into google, and press ‘im feeling lucky’ you still wont find any :stuck_out_tongue:

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Heh, yeah, I know that “easter egg”… I once wrote to google about it, and they claimed that it was purely coincidental :slight_smile:

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its not a coincident, you can even do your own, you just have to make a link to a page and for the text you have what you want it to be searched.