EXPLOSIONS BY VINCENT LAM - BENV 2423: September 2008

Model 1(X%=69):

In this model i intend to represent windows on the facade of the cactus model to convey glass. To represent the initial explosion from the epicenter and represent how glass is broken. With smaller and more compact lofts closer to the epicenter to larger lofts which spread out. The location of the epicenter would be in the middle of the windows. This model will be based on my CUSTOM made machinima, which represents different explosions - small, medium and large. To represent this idea, the lofts will exagerate a large explosion witht he snow-ball effect. The shape of the lofts will be very edgey and sharp rather than curvy and smooth emphasising that the material shattereing is glass.

The transparency of glass is most evident when intact but the relationship with that after an explosion is that it is opposite, with cracks and even shattering. With jaggered and scattered cut outs it demonstrates chaotic segmentation. However the window frames show more reformed segmentation, that is more familiar to the application of glass in manufacturing and in the built environment.

Dependancy of glass is represented with the window frames but once the glass has exploded and come off the frames, they are not as important to the cactus model.

Model 2 (Y%=44):

This model is slightly different in that it is based on the FOUND machinima from experiment 1(mainly the effect of a bullet being fired into a glass material and how this creates porosity), attempting to create space with the constraints from the percentage given on the volumetric parameter. The model will represent the breaking down of glass into smaller grains to permeate the space around it, with the initial impact of a bullet on the epicenter of the model and how it breaks through to the other end of the model. From the point of its contact with the model to the point it leaves the model, between these points it will show how the glass shatters in the direction of the moving bullet. Resulting in the creation of porosity from a massive amount of mass to which nearly half was taken out from the explosion.

Explosion of symmetry, the forms created within this model resemble the chaotic explosions within glass. However, at the same time acheiving a rationale, through the distribution of density without forms.

RESEARCH IMAGES TO AID IN REPRESENTING SHATTERING GLASS: