Jonno Chong BENV2423: September 2008

For my two 'percentage' models I went with two different styles for representing the exponential mass effect of explosion. Obviously with volumetric restrictions only portions of the exponentially increasing could be shown, both models have areas where there is has been small to large explosions where be in get progressively larger in random order. Much to simulate the many possibilities of explosions occurring in various places.
With the 32% model I carved out jagged shape using lofts to a point. These shapes are almost star-like, yet they portray fragmented explosions very well. In some cases I overlapped the shapes to give a another edge to the explosion. The effect of two such shapes intersecting, forms interesting ridge shapes that I would see as being possible in the scenario where there is two explosion to either side of an object, both explosions carving through that middle object towards each other. The sort of explosion that occurs in the model are almost a sort of explosion is obviously some what hypothetical in the sense that it is fairly linear and could only be imagined as vaporising the material it comes into contact with leaving its sharp crystal-like imprints on that object.
In relation to the 32% model the 57% has a more realistic appeal to it in regards to an explosion, as the explosion its does not give its shape to environment around ie. it does act like a 'cookie cutter' imprinting its own shape onto the environment. However, explosions do affect their environment if not entirely, the material that is being affected has its shape molded by the explosion. To what degree that material is being molded by the explosion depends on the materials versatility, in the case of buildings their core structure is most often reinforced concrete. The effect of an explosion on concrete is that concrete absorbs or better yet is resistant to part of the of force of the explosion and instead of taking on the shape of an explosion it crumbles and erodes rather than taking on the 'spiky ball' shape I imagine a explosion to be.