Firstly,I am not a research scientist or an engineer,but a billiard fan who wants 3 Cushion to grow to higher proportions/greater lenghts,so I would like to make the following suggestion: put more technology into billiard balls.
Wouldn't be wonderful if we had cue balls(both white and yellow ball) which would tell us :
-where they were hit(exact point of hit:10 0'clock or 10.30 ,therefore the exact detail about lateral and vertical english)
-speed of the cue ball
and all three having the capacity showing :
-How much thick the first object ball was hit.
To see these data on the screen would be entertaining and educative and also the existence of these data would create 'information' if the computer has those data and process it and creating such as :how fast a player is:I mean we say ' This player is soft or that player is explosive' but if we can measure the speed of each shot and average it ,we would have such information:This player has let's say 15 mile shot speed average in this particular game or per year or certain positions.Or during a match what is the thickness average of a player? if the ball tell us the data in every shot,we would have the information :we could see for example on screen:let's say Saygıner played 0,40 thickness average during a game but the opponent played 0,35.Those thickness figures my create new discussions.Or how players prefered spins.Some players prefer maximum english other players may use a bit more intermadiate spins.İf balls may give us data about this ,we may have again avarege numerical knowledge abut spins and comment about it.
Even more benefits of technology are possible.The amount of curves by the cueball may be measured and shown and the computer may suggest in any position the speed-thickness-spin combination that would make the point and when a player misses,the computer may say the reason of missing.
İn any way,if more numeraical data and statistics are avalaible more inteligent comments may be made apart from more entertainement produced.
When the colour tv came out in late 60's in England ,snooker benefited a lot from it becouse snooker had coloured balls! maybe be intelligent billiard balls may be the driving force behind a future resurgence in 3C.Robert Bryne said in his pool/billiard book that 3C requires the art of selection of lateral/vertical spin ,speed,thickness and stroke in a shot.This selection in every shot makes 3C different than pocket billiards so intelligent balls may make us see those preferences by a player in a numerical and even in statistical way
Personally,I do not know how it will be done but nano-technology has progressed immensely.I believe this can be done today or very near future.May be a very thin gelatin like computer on billiard balls would do the job.Maybe it will not be seen by naked eye or the mini computer will look like dot on the ball.
I apologize for this very long message.I hope it will not put much strain on readers.
Regards,
Timur
İstanbul,Turkey
Wouldn't be wonderful if we had cue balls(both white and yellow ball) which would tell us :
-where they were hit(exact point of hit:10 0'clock or 10.30 ,therefore the exact detail about lateral and vertical english)
-speed of the cue ball
and all three having the capacity showing :
-How much thick the first object ball was hit.
To see these data on the screen would be entertaining and educative and also the existence of these data would create 'information' if the computer has those data and process it and creating such as :how fast a player is:I mean we say ' This player is soft or that player is explosive' but if we can measure the speed of each shot and average it ,we would have such information:This player has let's say 15 mile shot speed average in this particular game or per year or certain positions.Or during a match what is the thickness average of a player? if the ball tell us the data in every shot,we would have the information :we could see for example on screen:let's say Saygıner played 0,40 thickness average during a game but the opponent played 0,35.Those thickness figures my create new discussions.Or how players prefered spins.Some players prefer maximum english other players may use a bit more intermadiate spins.İf balls may give us data about this ,we may have again avarege numerical knowledge abut spins and comment about it.
Even more benefits of technology are possible.The amount of curves by the cueball may be measured and shown and the computer may suggest in any position the speed-thickness-spin combination that would make the point and when a player misses,the computer may say the reason of missing.
İn any way,if more numeraical data and statistics are avalaible more inteligent comments may be made apart from more entertainement produced.
When the colour tv came out in late 60's in England ,snooker benefited a lot from it becouse snooker had coloured balls! maybe be intelligent billiard balls may be the driving force behind a future resurgence in 3C.Robert Bryne said in his pool/billiard book that 3C requires the art of selection of lateral/vertical spin ,speed,thickness and stroke in a shot.This selection in every shot makes 3C different than pocket billiards so intelligent balls may make us see those preferences by a player in a numerical and even in statistical way
Personally,I do not know how it will be done but nano-technology has progressed immensely.I believe this can be done today or very near future.May be a very thin gelatin like computer on billiard balls would do the job.Maybe it will not be seen by naked eye or the mini computer will look like dot on the ball.
I apologize for this very long message.I hope it will not put much strain on readers.
Regards,
Timur
İstanbul,Turkey
