people that propose and defend the technobabble dont actually play the gameAll this BS is to much reading just play the game and enjoy it,it's only a game not rocket science.
Instead of generating an opposite sound, the problem could be attacked from below and above as harmonic support. That's probably easy if disruption is the goal. If cancellation is required, what would happen if a mirror of the disrupting input was added to the disruption? And of course these two wave clouds would be tuneable and everything realtime interactive.This is extremely difficult to do. You will need to make many functional prototypes and it will take a lot of time.
My god, lol. And all of this as an application to billiards? This sounds like a startup company.Instead of generating an opposite sound, the problem could be attacked from below and above as harmonic support. That's probably easy if disruption is the goal. If cancellation is required, what would happen if a mirror of the disrupting input was added to the disruption? And of course these two wave clouds would be tuneable and everything realtime interactive.
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As in sports. Before the cameras the ref ‘s call was it.For example, our gambling games consist of someone taking a video of the hit and going back and replaying it if there is any question. Very useful.
I have three or four good ideas left that would make sellable products, but the problem is right now not only am I with a four month old, but I am burned out from the DigiBall project. It was like as soon as I was completed with the final design, by brain turned off. I don't even want to turn a screw driver for normal household maintenance.Well, first of all a huge thanks for this generous offer! Don't mind the elderly here that fear anything new and apparantly forgot basic politeness. The only thing I give them is recently there has been an instance where a new person promised a lot, but ended up ghosting once the reality of the challenges sunk in.
Usually I am very inspired and come up with all kinds of ideas. But honestly, I can't think of any thing.
Well maybe one thing. My schtick is that I am a bit of a game designer (amateur) and I am convinced that the big5 (8ball, 9ball, 10ball, straight pool and 1p) are great games, but they all lack *something*. In my post history there's a post about the search for the perfect game, a game that has it all, but is really hard to design - obviously.
Your question however is not about game design, but about mechinal engeneering. Well, one avenue in the search for the ultimate new poolgame is attributes on the pool table that modify the table. Like gates that could be passed or little "rail" islands. Altogether this is nothing concrete, just an idea that floated my mind.
For Elimin-8-ball it would be great if the pockets that are eliminated would automatically close.
All these are endavours that I honestly would not ask anyone to put a lot of time and energy into.
The digiball fills a void that we kind of knew would be a "very nice to have" and it's turning out fine. There's a company building topdown projectors that create (probably gimmicky) minigames for the party crowd. Imo with talented game designers they could make briljant games, but they probably aim for candycrush-pool games, if you get me.
So, a very long post to say: I don't know. But again, it's a genereus offer a d I hope someone has a really good idea.
Do you think pool can be like basketball (or snooker) one day when many other features are tracked? For example safety success, shot success, positional play success just to name a few. Sure Fargorate is already quite good at predicting the outcome, but I at least would like to know more than just who winsFor player rating, I think Fargorate is close to the best that can be done. It would be great if all pool organizations used it officially.
The one thing needed is more young people being drawn to the sport, ESPN will show Cornhole but no pool tournaments? I think it needs to be introduced in middle school, what's next tetherball on ESPN?????I have a lot of programming/electrical engineering/technical and pool experience and want to give back to the community. If time or money were no option, but human resources were restricted to just one human, what could be crafted to improve the billiard community. Ideas I have heard so far, and in no particular order:
1) A wearable (clip on) timer that conveys time violations. - Accelerometer/BLE/microphone.
2) A free/freemium unified platform (website/app) for tournament management. -Self mobile check-in & reporting; state of the art.
3) A device to determine who wins the lag. -laser proximity non-doppler.
4) Facial recognition & game recognition for automated player scoring - Compareface et. al.
5) Improved Ranking & Handicapping system - Avoid known micro cavitation & include transparent metrics.
6) Augmented reality aiming glasses. -- Might be a bit too complicated for 1 man.
7) Balls with sensors (training) devices. -3 axis Accelerometer/BLE/Resin
What else? I'll pick my favorite one, make it and report back. I like 1 and 2 a lot. 3 is too easy.
Would any of these not succeed, if not why - adoption, pragmaticism, implementation, something else? Nothing is too complicated.
How would making Fargo data public improve Fargo???If you want to improve fargo, _all_ that needs to be done is to make the data public.
A weighting system will always only be as good as the data entered. Garbage in equals garbage out. There would need to be someone there to track all of this information. I think it would also open a system up to massive abuse. Who is going to determine that a player miscued? That something in the way had any affect on the shot? How much affect did it have on the shot? Loose cloth at a pocket causing slow rolled balls to hang up? Who determines misses caused by that loose cloth??Thanks for the positivity.I agree with your statement. That is why I was leaning toward a tournament management site that captures ridiculous statistics and uses those to develop a far more robust weighting system. Did one lose because one miscued, or did one lose because one had a wall 2 feet behind away and couldn't stroke the cue ball which caused a miscue. <--trite example but an example of sorts worth considering perhaps. I have the time, money, & energy to bring most of these to market.
For the Matchroom events, additional stats are kept, but I think it's only for the featured table and I suspect the data goes away. It requires something like Accu-Stats which tracked many performance metrics. Few people were interested in the info at the time, so it went away. It was a lot of work.Do you think pool can be like basketball (or snooker) one day when many other features are tracked? For example safety success, shot success, positional play success just to name a few. Sure Fargorate is already quite good at predicting the outcome, but I at least would like to know more than just who wins
It could make the stats more accessible, allow other folks to develop apps/sites to display it better, and so on.How would making Fargo data public improve Fargo???