Plasma explosion effect

A wide discharge swells above cracked ground and leaves the surface intact. a wide shot of a cracked dry lake bed at night, a sphere of violet-white light swelling open above the ground until it is the width of a house and lighting the cracks in every direction, its surface rippling and crawling with fine arcs, then shrinking back to a point and vanishing so the bed returns to darkness completely unmarked, no flame, smoke or debris, locked wide camera

A flat disc of light widens down the length of an empty hangar. a wide shot down the length of an empty aircraft hangar in darkness, a point of light at the far end releasing a thin flat ring of white light that spreads outward toward camera at head height, the ribs of the roof and the bare floor lighting in a travelling band as the ring passes and going dark again behind it, nothing moved and nothing marked, locked wide camera

A thin disc of light widens through the room and passes through the air. a bare tiled room lit only by a single point of light hanging at chest height, then a thin flat ring of white light spreads outward from that point parallel to the floor, widening through the room and passing straight through the air without moving dust or marking the tiles, the walls brightening in a travelling band as the ring reaches them, the ring thinning to nothing, locked camera

Filaments of light fork back and forth across a gap without heat or smoke. two plain metal poles standing a metre apart on a dark gravel yard at night, filaments of white-blue light beginning to fork back and forth across the gap between them, each arc snapping into a new shape and lighting the gravel and the poles cold, the light growing dense enough to bloom in the lens before falling away, no flame and no smoke, camera slowly orbiting the gap

A ball of light grows and vanishes, leaving the floor unmarked. a wet concrete warehouse floor in near darkness, then a sphere of violet-white light appears at waist height and swells outward smoothly to two metres across, its surface rippling, before collapsing back to a point and vanishing, the walls and puddles lit hard while it grows and returning to black when it goes, the concrete left completely unmarked with no flame, smoke or debris, locked camera at floor level

Loose strands of light gather to a point before flaring outward. loose strands of pale blue light drifting in a dark empty corridor, all of them pulling inward at once toward a single point at centre frame until the point is too bright to look at, then flaring outward in one silent burst of light that fills the corridor and drains away, the walls and floor lit hard for a beat and left untouched, no smoke and no debris, camera pushing in

Drifting light pulls to a point, then one silent flare fills the canyon. a wide shot of a narrow dry canyon at night with pale strands of light drifting between the walls, every strand pulling inward to a single point above the canyon floor until it is blinding, then flaring outward in one silent flood of light that reaches both walls and drains away, the rock lit hard for a beat and left whole with no dust raised, locked wide camera

Branching filaments of light travel along steel and leave no scorch. a plain steel handrail in a dark stairwell, a bright point forming at one end before branching filaments of blue-white light crawl along the rail and out into the air in forking lines, each branch flickering and reforming as it reaches further, the steel lit cold along the whole length and the surface left clean and unscorched as the arcs fade, camera tracking slowly along the rail

Forking filaments of light spread across a roof, lighting it without fire. a wide shot of a flat gravel rooftop at night with two plain vent stacks, branching filaments of blue-white light forking outward from between the stacks and spreading across the roof in fast growing lines, the gravel and the stacks lit cold from below as each branch reforms, the filaments fading and leaving the roof unscorched and unchanged, locked wide camera

A small sphere of light grows between the hands and lights the face from below. a person holding both palms up in a dark bare room, a small sphere of violet light forming between their hands and swelling until it is the width of their shoulders, its surface crawling with fine arcs, their face and forearms lit hard from below while the room stays black, the sphere collapsing to a point and leaving their hands unharmed, camera at chest height pushing in slightly