How It Works: Stunning 3D Animation Shows Ammo Being Fired
Here’s a great video from German ammo-maker GECO (part of the Swiss RUAG group of companies). Employing advanced 3D rendering and computer graphics, this animation unveils the inside of a pistol cartridge, showing jacket, lead core, case, powder and primer. Next the video shows an X-ray view of ammo being loaded in a handgun, feeding from a magazine.
Then it really gets interesting. At 1:32 – 1:50 you’ll see the firing pin strike the primer cup, the primer’s hot jet streaming through the flash-hole, and the powder igniting. Finally you can see the bullet as it moves down the barrel and spins its way to a target. This is a very nicely-produced video. If you’ve ever wondered what happens inside a cartridge when you pull the trigger, this video shows all. They say “a picture’s worth a thousand words”… well a 3D video is even better.
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Tags: 3D, Animation, CGI, GECO, Primer, Video Ammo, X-Ray View
I managed to get the HD (followed you directions) and was very impressed with the image quality on full screen on my 22″ monitor. Slick!
I though the ‘golf ball’ dimple effect (six grooves in their case) was to do with flow separation (the change from laminar and turbulent flow) and resulted lowered drag at certain speeds and not anything to do stability? Another note, does the flow regime experienced experienced by a bullet moving at 100 or 1000s of FPS have anything to do with that experienced by a gold ball moving at 10s of FPS? In other words, will this effect occur?
Also the ignition of the propellant and the flame spreading is nothing like they show. From radiographs and high speed photography I’ve seen it’s certainly not like that.
Its an animation Neil, and very well done. Leave it to the Germans.
Is this ammo sold in US?
Nice to read this thank you