Thanks all. I think it was Plague that I remember. I also reached out to Tin man via PM. Bob would be great too. I have to figure out my camera to make this work. I have a good overhead camera, but can't livestream off of it. Probably facetime or skype off the phone would work, but I'd have to figure out a way to mount the phone way up there and get power to it. And the person on the other end would probably need to see the picture on their computer (not phone) to have a good chance of seeing what ball is what. This might turn out to be too big a project from a technology standpoint. Oh, and my phone doens't have as wide a lens as the dedicated overhead SLR camera I have, so it won't be as good a viewpoint. hmmm...
If you end up going through with your idea it would be interesting to hear your thoughts about what you learned regarding your patterns, how much you think it was actually the patterns holding you back and if not what you think it might be instead, etc.