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High-Speed Pool and Billiards Video Clips (colostate.edu)
45 points by Tomte on Sept 4, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



As a weekend project, some colleagues and I built a computer-vision pool-ball tracker a few years back.

https://gocardless.com/blog/hacking-on-side-projects-the-poo...

Would be awesome to use a high-framerate camera for this.


Even for folks who know a lot of the basic physics in billiards, there is surprising depth. For example:

http://billiards.colostate.edu/high_speed_videos/new/HSVB-34...


As somewhat of a billiards enthusiast, I stumbled upon this site a few years ago. The biggest result of this was the discovery of "throw" and the ways that it can come into play (both intentionally and unintentionally). Once I learned how to control it, I started being able to make shots that I had once thought were impossible.

Many of these videos helped me to improve my intuitive understanding of the physics of the game, and made me a better player as a result. Thanks Dr. Dave!


I was pretty disappointed after seeing that this is not billiards being played with a few second time limit for each shot.





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