Apps for measuring shot angles on a real pool table or by simulations??

[Bob Jewett]

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The pivot point is the butt of the cue?

Yes. Draw a diagram.

 

[bbb]

If you want to know the cut angle...

Put your tip at the center of the ghost ball pointing along the path to the pocket.
Pivot around your tip to move the cue stick to the cue ball
The angle swept by your stick is the cut angle.
The distance the bumper on your cue has moved in inches is equal to the degrees of cut angle. (That's precisely true for a cue that is 57 plus a little long, but is close enough for most cues.)

after you do the bolded above
if you look at where the cue tip is pointing on the object ball you have your fractional aim point .....

 

[BC21]

Yes. Draw a diagram.

Gotcha. It's definitely not an easy thing to do, pivoting the entire cue accurately from the butt end, estimating that 90° intersection... Looks great on paper, but not very practical in reality.

Planting the tip at the ghostball and then pivoting the butt of the cue over the cb provides an immediate fractional style aim line. Simply aim to where your cue is pointed. No exact angle knowledge needed.

 

[bbb]

for me
post #22 solves most of my unsure aiming situations

 

[Thresh]

Are there apps to measure shot angles of balls on a real pool table or of simulations of shots on a pool table? In this forum's thread, Poolology: Side Pocket Aiming, the Billard Aiming Calculator (yes, that’s spelled ‘billard’) was mentioned. I found the app but was unable to download it. My phone claims it is not approved and it probably has not been updated for years. An AimRight YouTube video discusses simulations but I do not recall an app mentioned there.

Can you download and use Billard Aiming Calculator?
What other apps are available for simulations or for the real thing?
Is it technologically possible for software to measure shot angles of balls on a real pool table?

I believe this app has the potential, but I think it faded away.

Projection apps like PPB and ICA use the pool table as a TV/computer monitor. You can create a set up and use the mouse and keyboard to find the angles, but both these products use your table like a monitor, they do not know where the ball actually is.

You have AimRight and Poolology that will probably help you find the closest 1/8 inch fractional aim point, which is perfectly fine for 98% of all players. Poolology uses diamonds as reference and AimRight trains your repetition (in my opinion).


One day augmented reality or brain implant will do all this for you.

For now I'd recommend to be able to recognize the quarter ball fractional hits with the 1/2 ball hit being the biggest priority.


I believe someone said something close to "if you knew it's a 34.8 degree cut, now what?"". The simple answer is it's just a hair more thinner than a half ball it. If you know the half ball hits, you know it's not thicker....Ta da....


Just my opinion.