Nice thread resurrection! I missed this one. This is my jam to a T.

Lens distortion can make balls appear as ovals and fall out of the bounds of a radius filter of the hough transform applied to circles.

For a fixed camera, finding the diamonds in the image can be used to make a transform to correct the lens aberrations. Using the safe assumption that the diamonds need to form four lines along the rails in an undistorted image. I am unaware of a standalone filter premade for this, but I haven't looked in a while.

With even intensity and hue illumination, color filters could be manually adjusted for ball identification for the solid balls. The stripes get trickier.

TTownPool said:

Yes, see the pic above that Jayson Shaw posted on FB. The 7 ball used to be the exact same baby blue color that the 2 is now.

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Used to be the six I recall was teal ish.

Snooker Theory said:

Don't tell me it's a Krown kustom cue

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you misspelled Klown

TTownPool said:

Barry Hearn just made the same mistake, shot the 3 in with the 2 on the table. He then turned to the crowd and said “who’s decision was this to change the balls?!?” . A lot of players have now done it in the past 2 days. They should just go all-in and make the 8 ball yellow.

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I know the correct answer at this level of pool is, "It is the player's job to know," but I swear with these new balls if I saw my opponent lining up at the wrong ball I would want to say something before they shoot. I would have to overcome the urge to be a good sportsman, or whatever.

From what I have seen over the years, usually after you get the fed's attention the first thing you receive is a cease and desist letter. Smart people cease and desist and never do such a thing again.

You never know who is going to handle a case. One fed considers $5000 a major sum, another doesn't consider $500,000 a major sum.

One year the IRS decided I owed them $145.00. If you say so, I sent them the money. The next year they said they owed me $145. I told my tax man, no problem, they can keep it!

Some friends were making a little 'shine. The feds watched them make a million dollars worth, wholesale, then raided. Took five pick-up trucks, the big trucks belonged to U-Haul. Did a little more damage and fined them $5000 each, $25,000. Five years probation. I know of other people that did far less and did basically natural life as first offenders. Messing with the feds is like poking a bear with a stick, never know when you are gonna poke a tender spot.

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