Mirror Image Madness!

CurvedCue

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This illustration from the book, Pool Player's Edge, is massively confusing to me:

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I thought mirror image was when you imagined another table placed next to the one you're playing on. But the picture shows a table turned on its side.

So how in the world do you aim UP?

Am I just missing something obvious here?
 
Technically speaking there is unlimited number of points (all points must belong to the plane containing the line) where the line to the mirrored pocket will be seen as the line. I am not sure how to use it in practice rather than come up with diamond numbering which can be used for banking. See the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHLosv1vPZE
Does anyone know how the picture can be used in practice?
 
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I think it's supposed to represent two tables side-by-side but the way the drawing is angled, it creates an optical illusion that makes it look like the mirror table is standing vertically.

Or maybe that's why some people take forever to line up kick shots, cuz they're trying to line up to an imaginary table on it's friggin' side!
 
I think that is a terrible picture.



CurvedCue said:
This illustration from the book, Pool Player's Edge, is massively confusing to me:



I thought mirror image was when you imagined another table placed next to the one you're playing on. But the picture shows a table turned on its side.

So how in the world do you aim UP?

Am I just missing something obvious here?
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The diagram is broken unless a subsequent drawing folds the upper table out flat.

Further, they have the placement of the image table wrong. The rails grooves of the two tables should be aligned, not the outer edges of the rails.
 
^^^^^

Correct. You may want to stop reading that book and pick up something by Byrne or Capelle instead...

Scott
 
The vertical table is not a table, it is a mirror. You're looking at the pocket in a mirror.

Best,
Mike
 
Maybe you should... :) Perhaps the rest of the content and diagrams are less confusing or more accurate, can't say...

Scott
 
Nah, a lot of Shari and The Ghost's two books are solid.

"Shari and The Ghost" sounds like a 1970's sitcom, doesn't it?

I don't know what they were thinking with the mirror table, though, it would make me shoot down on the cue ball and jump the table or something...
 
Yeah that drawing is weird. I own that book, at least one of the earlier editions, and I have to say there were a lot of things about the illustrations that weren't my favorite. The one that bothered me the most though is that in my copy the illustrations didn't sync up with what was written on the page. You'd have to flip back to see what they were talking about. Not very helpful.
 
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