When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Flash blindness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_blindness

    Flash blindness is an either temporary or permanent visual impairment during and following exposure of a varying length of time to a light flash of extremely high intensity, such as a nuclear explosion, flash photograph, lightning strike, or extremely bright light, i.e. a searchlight, laser pointer, landing lights or ultraviolet light. [1]

  3. Special effects of Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effects_of...

    Many of the visual effects for this were provided by Gene Warren Jr. and his company, Fantasy II Film Effects. [12] Led by Michael Joyce, the model shop crew build a 1/6 scale miniature replica of the setting complete with a miniature overpass and cars, cinder blocks, exposed girds, and bricks cast out of Hydrocal (a hard plaster) and Pryocel ...

  4. Special effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effect

    A special effect of a miniature person from the 1952 film The Seven Deadly Sins. Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the fictional events in a story or virtual world.

  5. Rope trick effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_trick_effect

    In the initial microseconds after the explosion, a fireball is formed around the bomb by the massive numbers of thermal x-rays released by the explosion process. These x-rays cannot travel very far in standard atmosphere before reacting with molecules in the air , so the result is a fireball that rapidly forms within about 10 metres (33 ft) in ...

  6. Practical effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_effect

    A practical effect is a special effect produced physically, without computer-generated imagery or other post-production techniques. In some contexts, "special effect" is used as a synonym of "practical effect", in contrast to " visual effects " which are created in post-production through photographic manipulation or computer generation.

  7. Special effects of The Dark Knight - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effects_of_The...

    Visual effects company Double Negative provided the 700 different effect shots needed for The Dark Knight, which Nolan used only as a last resort. This figure was relatively small compared to other contemporary films, but the significantly larger IMAX resolution made the respective task longer to complete.

  8. Visual effects - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_effects

    Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated as VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The integration of live-action footage and other live-action footage or CGI elements to create realistic imagery is called VFX.

  9. Blast wave - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_wave

    Like other types of explosions, a blast wave can also cause damage to things and people by the blast wind, debris, and fires. The original explosion will send out fragments that travel very fast. Debris and sometimes even people can get swept up into a blast wave, causing more injuries such as penetrating wounds, impalement and broken bones.