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A bright stroboscopic lamp is installed inside of a transparent soccer ball. Game is played at night, with the ball providing the only illumination.
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Kind of like uncertainty soccer: |
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You know where the ball is, but you cannot really gauge the speed, or you don't know exactly where it is depending on if the strobe is on or off. |
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so its a field full of players all running hell for leather at the same bright flashing light. Is the spiral guy a dentist who is trying to drum up a little more business? |
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Could be fun, and probably not as dangerous as [tdb] thinks, but you'd better supply the ref and linesmen with night goggles. |
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I think it would get tiresome very
quickly. |
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I thought strobes brought on epileptic fits not dental decay. |
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Last Tuesday evening my kids played a soccer game to make up one that got rained out. It got a bit dark towards the end of the game as there were no lights on that field.
The number of collisions and spills was dramatically higher than normal. I am thinking it might be similar with a strobe. |
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If the player's uniforms contained lights to show the outlines of the players, and if the strobing ball could be constructed to have acceptable physical characteristics, I would think this could be an interesting game whose character would depend a lot upon the blink rate of the ball. Even a moderately fast blink rate (e.g. 6Hz) which would not interfere with a bystander's perception of continuous motion could make things interesting for moving players (persistence of vision can play some interesting tricks). |
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Only if played to music by Donna Summer and the Bee Gees. |
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Nine other strobing things to watch? Oooh i can feel a fit coming on just thinking about it. Strobe basketball FLASHtennis FLASHfootball FLASHhighjump FLASHbakery FLASHarchery FLASHouch. |
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