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Loop: Elliptical Pool

• dang 11y ago
  A background article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10100979 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10100979.
• function_seven 11y ago
  I would love to play this. It looks like it has just the right amount of frustration mixed with a clever and simple bank shot setup to keep me playing. The pocket ("hole"?) must've been stolen from a carnival game or something :).
• tln 11y ago
  This reminds me of Cowboy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_pool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_pool) The table seems pretty small, anyone know the dimensions?
• mattkenefick 11y ago
  I don't see the "geeky" aspect of it. It reminds me of golf + pool.. neither of which are geeky.
• agumonkey 11y ago
  They should have made it a real ellipse.
  • mcphage 11y ago
    In what sense? I was under the assumption that they had.
    • agumonkey 11y ago
      Isn't it a perfect circle ?
      • mcphage 11y ago
        No, it has two foci—that's the point of the table. One focus is a hole, so a ball hit from the other focus will always bounce towards the hole. That's the diagram at the top of the page.
        • agumonkey 11y ago
          Ha, I thought it was a pool term...
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