Impressive Pyrotechnics: Difference between revisions

In reality, a fireball is often a minor part of an explosion (though not always, as is the case with incendiaries, like phosphorus, uranium, gelled fuels like napalm, etc). The real devastation from an explosion often comes from the force (overpressure) of the blast and the flying debris and shrapnel. Very rarely will explosions look like what they do in real life, an expanding cloud of dust and debris with very little light—andlight — and very little left behind. Those also can look visually impressive (since you see a huge cloud in just a second), but those can be difficult to film, while fireballs done in movies are a lot safer. Video games and animation have the excuse of all that debris being almost too much to draw or render.

If you turn this trope [[Up Toto Eleven]], then [[You Can See the Explosion from Orbit]].