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Can someone explain the “heat wave”-like distortion that the camera briefly experiences well before the blast wave seems to reach the building. How could an atm
by matt-attack 6y ago
Can someone explain the “heat wave”-like distortion that the camera briefly experiences well before the blast wave seems to reach the building. How could an atmospheric effect make it to the camera at two different speeds?
Not to be callous to the incredible tragedy at play, but I simply find this video to be mesmerizing in its quality and potency.
In America we’re born and raised on countless explosions in pop culture whether it’s a Hollywood or gaming. They’re to the point of being so utterly mundane that it’s rare for Hollywood to wow an audience with a mere explosion anymore (though I could certainly name some memorable ones from over the years). We all now think we know what they look like in urban environments, and have for the last 30 years of high quality special effects. But. This video is real. And the details and nuances at play have simply never been depicted in film or tv before. To see the physics at play is simply mind boggling to me. I’d love to read a frame by frame account by a true expert of this 4K video.
- jiggawatts 6y agoI'm not sure which video you're referring to, but there are several things at play that can cause visual effects like you described. 1) The seismic wave travels through the ground much faster than the shockwave in the air, and will rattle the camera. Cameras with anti-shake technology will try to compensate, often badly, resulting in smeared or blurred images. 2) The visible expanding shell of vapor is not the shockwave, it is caused by condensation in the low pressure zone behind the shockwave. The shockwave itself is harder to see, but it is still visible as a distortion or slight blurring.