I found this example by Steven Wittens to be remarkably well done: http://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-glory-pt2/ http://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-

I found this example by Steven Wittens to be remarkably well done: http://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-glory-pt2/ http://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-glory-pt2/ See the section "Blowing up the Death Star" and note that there are 100 parts total. "So that's quaternions, the magical rotation vectors."