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Instead of a flat field, the game is played on a curved surface. Steepest at the goals, almost flat in the center. At the goals the slope could be up to 45 degrees. This would make rolling balls follow interesting curves. Interplayer visibility would be greatly improved.
Hyperbolic Paraboloid
http://mathworld.wo...olicParaboloid.html
Curved Surface [csea, Apr 11 2007]
Parabolic Pool Table
Parabolic_20Pool_20Table
by ldischler [calum, Apr 11 2007]
Parabolic Ice Park
Parabolic_20Ice_20Park
by Worldgineer [calum, Apr 11 2007]
Slamball
http://www.youtube....watch?v=inJ2k4mpVCo
Basketball + trampolines = madness [imaginality, Apr 12 2007]
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Consider a hyperbolic paraboloid for your "curved surface." [link] Be sure to click on and move the java item around. |
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Soccer could stand to be hyperbolic. That ball seems pretty lazy and inert much of the time. |
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45° is extremely steep. Believe it or not, a 30° slope feels like about 60 when you're standing on it. |
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Back to the idea - wouldn't this make football even more boring as a spectator sport? |
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45 is wonderfully steep. I want the players teetering and working just to keep from falling down. |
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So far as spectator interest, this will concentrate the action in the center of the field. |
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Thanks to the Parabolic Pool Table, I'd honestly never considered a *non-spinning* parabolic sport. It would be sufficiently interesting to be worth trying. |
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Basketball. (+) Something has to make that sport more watchable. |
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Maximum or minimum at center field? |
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"Interplayer visibility would be greatly improved." |
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This is discriminatory: it isn't necessary to have a parabolics to play sport. Some of the sports even provide the opportunity to lose one, if you had some to begin with. |
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[ling, ling ling ling ling!] |
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It took me a second, and then I regretted that second. |
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Didn't cycling bake this decades ago? |
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The concept is pretty neat, but you'd really
have to legalise doping, because players
have a hard time running for 90 minutes
as it is. |
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But this way they spend half their time running downhill. |
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They would be running half the *distance*
downhill. Since uphill running will be twice
to three times as slow, the poor bastards
will spend 66-75% of their time on ascent. |
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Um, skateboarders on a halfpipe with basketball hoops so that they have to jump really high to dunk would be cool, or halfpipe jousting like on skate-or-die, or skateboard football on a halfpipe would be awesomely sweet too. |
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Imagining Tom Brady chucking a football up a 45 degree incline for a touchdown gets this a bun alone. |
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