• cl3misch 9 months ago

    Is this post in any way motivated by the recent post about physics of colliding balls? ;-)

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669747

    • msephton 9 months ago

      Very cool! I used to love Virtual Pool (original version) and this is scratching my itch. On macOS, I installed with pipx and it just worked, installing with pip failed as it usually does these days (at least for me on my setup).

      • krystofee 9 months ago

        It would be really interesting to see an open sourced reinforcement learning agent system build on top of this. I wonder what trickshots are possible.

        • a1o 9 months ago

          I remember playing VirtuaPool on DOS a long time ago, I don't remember the command to start it on DOS, I think it was POOL.EXE

          • hoten 9 months ago

            My dream program is a tool that takes a video of a game on a pool table and feeds it into an interactive playback tool like this one.

            There's dozens of awesome shots I wish I could experience again on demand.

            • Dyac 9 months ago

              You might appreciate this: https://youtu.be/vsTTXYxydOE

              An engineer created a mixed reality pool table (YouTube channel "Stuff Made Here", all of his stuff is great).

              • ryanchants 9 months ago

                It would also be nice to setup a shot you missed during competition to work on.

              • wiz21c 9 months ago
                • ziofill 9 months ago

                  Is it standard practice to put lots of code in the `__init__.py` files?

                  • msephton 9 months ago

                    I get the feeling you know the answer, so just come out with it :)

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