Firmus Piett wrote:I scaled the hole based on the feet. The diameter of the region fragmented by the bolt is ~4.6 times the length of a clone troopers boot, substantially greater than the space between his feet. Thats over a meter. The chunk on the ground is just one of the fragments. The total sum amounted to several of these large chunks.
I read your work, and the work is good, but I think there were a couple of small problems with the image you used.
First, the aspect ratio in the picture with the clone's feet is distorted. Which makes it unreliable for any measurement.
And second, in this frame it is difficult to see the right-side bound of the fracture, a couple frames earlier it is much easier (Some animated dust starts to get in the way). Your measurement extends out to a jagged end, not the 'normal' diameter.
I've attached a couple of images, one is the frame you used and the other more clearly shows the fracture line. They're both lighter for some reason and are screenshots from the episode on netflix. Using a slightly rougher method of estimation (within five or so pixels) I get a horizontal distance of about 3.75-ish boot lengths. Although given it is a fracture type event the difference probably isn't too important.
Firmus Piett wrote:The hole looks bigger in the Han pic because its so dark, the jagged outline of the actual hole is smaller than the dark oval in the picture.
Ah, I thought the entire ellipse was supposed to represent the fragment, I can't really see it in the oval.
Firmus Piett wrote:But there are two more problems. The clone trooper remains fixed to the ceiling, even when there's gravity, and when he falls, bits of material remain fixed to his feet. He is obviously magnetically sealed to the material. Furthermore the chunks make metal on metal sounds when landing. This is even more evident later on when a shells detonation brings the whole roof down.
Perhaps the deck is concrete with two, thin metal sheets covering either side of it? This would bring this feat of firepower more into line with the others on the page...
I had thought about it being plated in metal, but even 1/16 inch sheet steel should have held those chunks in place unless they are
really dense. Also the bits don't stick to the clone's feet after he falls. The just appear to by virtue of all things falling at the same rate (9.8 m/s^2). This is seen when he hits the ground after being caught by Anikin, the bits of debris are not attached to his feet at this point.
The bang as they hit the floor could still occur were the floor made of several layers of sheet metal. But then again, maybe this is some advanced material which contains metal, but is physically like concrete. Or somehow the boots were sticking to a layer of metal beneath the 'concrete', or it did have a layer of metal.
When the roof comes down later and Anikin wakes up, as he is lifting it off there are two distinct materials. Layered metal sheets with conduit between some layers and some more of that concrete-like stuff. If the floor were made of a similar layering structure it would explain the sound of metal hitting metal when the chunks hit the floor. Given the chunks that fell after the explosion are showing expected bends and tears, the animation team clearly took this into account, so it seems unlikely that there was a layer of metal over the concrete stuff.
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