Posted on 01/08/2015 7:23:16 PM PST by LibWhacker
Amen. When one can complete a break holing the 8 ball most of the time, or the 9 ball if your playing that game, you are a champion. Good luck. Those of us who are pool players know damn right well you can’t sink the 8 or 9 ball every time. I prefer slightly to the right of center when breaking.
Well....let’s inject the variable of reality in here.
A “perfect break” first requires a “perfect rack”, and that not that easy to come by.
If you have new felt, that’s a good start, so the balls don’t move apart when you release the rack.
Next YOU have to be able to set the rack perfectly square, and that just isn’t a natural happening.
Should be more like the 8 ball in the corner pocket on the break!
Oh yea, I did it once.
Given that the 11 and 15 balls dropped in, the next shot is the 1-5-8 combo left bottom pocket for the win!
Yeah, easy for me to say.lol
And a “perfect spin” on the balls. Which are frictionless too.
Ain’t gonna happen.
But is kind of cool. I like the 3x on the bottom moving side-by-side together.
Like a climate model. Here is the computer simulation for the next 85 years. But they are both based on “perfect physics”
Reminds me of going to the Ground Round when I was a kid.
Same reason they would bounce off a concrete floor - mass "below" is greater than force/impetus from "above". Putting top spin on the cue ball can force it to re-hit those still in the way and give you some extra action.
Good one. Spin and translation would require a lot of subtle modeling and parameters to get right. There's probably skidding before they match, and that would involve both dynamic and static friction. I suspect no spin and, of course, no friction.
now that’s funny.....I don’t care who you are
My window of opportunity is between 3 and 6 beers... ;-)
The black ball in snooker is the 7
If it’s eight ball the eight is in the wrong place in the rack looks like they are in numerical order top to bottom left to right. The eight ball (black one) should be in the middle where the five is. (the orange one).
Didn't play it ... A bar I frequented had it on on the way to the restroom. Every time you walked by, it would start trash-talking you. I always assumed it had some sort of motion sensor.
I know I know, it's a hypothetical conversation starter. Not trying to be a Debbie Downer. I get plenty disappointed when I think I've given my opponent a good rack and it comes out dead.
It would be interesting to see a sensitivity analysis of that break, showing what happens when you’re n millimeters off a direct hit. or when a ball is n millimeters out of position.
It seems to me that the only way that could happen is if they modeled the balls as being not 100% rigid or with finite spaces between the balls. Which goes against my own assumption about the model, which is that they assumed 100% rigidity and no spaces. Of course I could be wrong.
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