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Planetary pool is a lot like regular pool except the table is coated in black felt and the balls are scaled versions of the various planets(in full color of course), planetoid's and larger moons within the solar system. The cue ball represents the sun. Game play is as normal.
"Earth in the corner
pocket."
so long as you don't wade into deeper waters
Planequarium
[theircompetitor, Nov 29 2006]
Orbital Pool
Orbital_20Pool
nice idea, but very similar to this [xenzag, Nov 29 2006]
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I like the aesthetics, but we're going to have to think about this scaling business. Earth, or Mars to Jupiter or the Sun would be like playing marbles against beachballs. |
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Sod the scaling. (for reasons mentioned by others here) Why not have the balls all the same size but painted to look like the planets. I'd 'ave 'em. |
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Oo oo oo! Can the triangle look like saturn's rings only, well, triangular, please? |
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You could have a light in the center of the Cue ball. The ringed rack is a neat idea. I think using a white chalk would also help create a star field pattern on the felt. |
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That's an interesting practical question - modelling gravity with magnetism could be done, but to do so in a way that the balls would gently orbit one another, rather than rapidly snap together would be a real masterpiece of tuning. If the magnets are too strong, everything will just clump together in the middle, if they're not strong enough, there wont be any effect. |
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Now what if the table were able to sag at points containing masses, in a realisation of the 'rubber sheet' that is often used to describe gravitation - this would more closely resemble a real gravitational effect. You'd need a very special material, and leaning on the table to take a shot would be frowned upon. |
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I vote for all the same size, painted with pictures of Bush, Osama, and any others you'd like to knock around. |
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actually [xenzag] the only real similarity is that the pool balls look like planets, everything else is completely different. |
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Yeah I tried to cover it under planetoids. I was thinking, |
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, The Moon, Titan, Io Ganymede, Triton and Europa. |
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+ cute and semi-educational, too. |
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How would you know which balls were yours to knock in? |
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For a slightly wackier version, a one-press-per-frame button on the side would dispense 10 or so marbles to act as an asteroid belt. |
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So if the cue was of normal size then the other balls would be unbeliveably tiny, the cue would just roll over them |
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i think we kind of covered that in the Annos. |
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To keep the scale idea, maybe make the length of the table the same as the scale diameter of the sun, then keep a much smaller (regulation size) cue ball sun, and cast the planets inside clear resin regulation sized balls up to scale with the sun=table length scale. |
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Crap. Pool balls are hollow, I think... |
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Mine are soled stone I'm not sure of the type |
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