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Pool Ball Collecting.
- Thread starter Rubik's Cube
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So glad to be back in the forum, dear Benelli, and thank you kindly for the words of welcome back - I’m sure looking forward to sharing all that is new the last few years and the camaraderie amongst fellow fans and fanatics 
~ K.
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~ K.
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Thank you so much, dear fellow.
I’m hoping the exhibition cards will eventually look much better when some beautiful photographs are taken to drop in those three empty frames.
I’m hoping the exhibition cards will eventually look much better when some beautiful photographs are taken to drop in those three empty frames.
Hard Knock Cues
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I for one can't wait to see the finale product, I truly enjoy them. I also hope you'll make a book of them, maybe glossy pages. I would definitely buy a couple copies.
Either way please keep them coming.
Thank you
Thank you so much for such generous words, HKC. It is sincerely appreciated, sir.
Hard Knock Cues
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You are very welcome, and it's a pleasure to see K2 back. By the time I read through the complete forum he seemed to fall off, so I wondered wear bouts and missed his contributions.Glad to see your return K2.
I also see Rubik's was correct on the Romanique balls on eBay. I surely assumed some collectors with deeper pockets would have been willing to pay for them, maybe they're holding out for better.
It all made me wonder if anyone knows how many sets of the Romanique's were created?
Surprisingly, 2,000 Romanique II sets were made in four separate castings of 500, HKC. Sadly, the quality became increasingly erratic so it’s preferable to have one of the earlier mouldings.
In contrast, only about 20 Romanique I sets were custom made for professional players, hence their desirability to us collectors today.
In contrast, only about 20 Romanique I sets were custom made for professional players, hence their desirability to us collectors today.
Coincidentally, I was chatting privately about those Dynaspheres yesterday, Mr D. I think their design is rather reminiscent of balls featured in Ridley Scott’s 2012 movie, Alien: Prometheus.
A friend of mine now owns the set.
A friend of mine now owns the set.
I’ve received a private message on this subject, so just in case anyone else is interested in such things…
The exhibition cards shared recently are a combination of real photographs and computer-generated images. The 4x4 or 6x4 formation top right of the page are actual balls, photographed individually to avoid lens distortion and then grouped together afterwards to look natural. If one tries to capture them all at once the outer balls have a frustrating tendency to appear egg-shaped. An old mobile phone camera is all I have available, so managing light and focus levels often requires Heath Robinson style contraptions around my kitchen table.
The fifteen-ball diorama along the bottom of the provenance card is part reality, part virtual CGI. The coloured cloth is real but the balls are entirely computer generated, carefully rendered to resemble the real balls to the best of my ability. This process often takes rather a long time, dear reader. My computer is twenty-eight years old, still running Windows 95, and the software used (Corel Dream 8) has been obsolete since about 1999… rather like me, in fact.
With regards the typography and typesetting, this has always been a particular fascination of mine. I flatter myself in thinking there is perhaps a little more behind the descriptive paragraphs featured on the cards than might first meet the eye. Naturally, all word processors feature some kind of justification function to manipulate text into something more aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Personally, however, the manner in which forced margins affect word spacing and tracking annoys me. I therefore prefer to choose words very carefully so each line is exactly the same length without squashing or stretching. I realise this is horribly OCD but I just cannot help it.
Apologies for the lengthy post!
Best wishes.
The exhibition cards shared recently are a combination of real photographs and computer-generated images. The 4x4 or 6x4 formation top right of the page are actual balls, photographed individually to avoid lens distortion and then grouped together afterwards to look natural. If one tries to capture them all at once the outer balls have a frustrating tendency to appear egg-shaped. An old mobile phone camera is all I have available, so managing light and focus levels often requires Heath Robinson style contraptions around my kitchen table.
The fifteen-ball diorama along the bottom of the provenance card is part reality, part virtual CGI. The coloured cloth is real but the balls are entirely computer generated, carefully rendered to resemble the real balls to the best of my ability. This process often takes rather a long time, dear reader. My computer is twenty-eight years old, still running Windows 95, and the software used (Corel Dream 8) has been obsolete since about 1999… rather like me, in fact.
With regards the typography and typesetting, this has always been a particular fascination of mine. I flatter myself in thinking there is perhaps a little more behind the descriptive paragraphs featured on the cards than might first meet the eye. Naturally, all word processors feature some kind of justification function to manipulate text into something more aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Personally, however, the manner in which forced margins affect word spacing and tracking annoys me. I therefore prefer to choose words very carefully so each line is exactly the same length without squashing or stretching. I realise this is horribly OCD but I just cannot help it.
Apologies for the lengthy post!
Best wishes.
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Thank you so much, 8cree. And I appreciate you taking time to read through everything, sir. 
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Photographed on my desk a moment ago.
I got my Playboy Bunny pool balls from Ewa Laurance at a Brunswick booth at a BCA trade show.
