Re: Software Pinball Machine

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From: Juri Munkki
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 20:23

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In article <1992Nov6.034457.11981@waikato.ac.nz> gford@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>The ball is moving on a sloping table, (slope in y direction). The x component
>of the velocity remains constant. And the y component  vy(t) = vy(t-1) + a
>where a is a fraction of gravitational acceleration. 

I don't think that you can really realistically model a pinball without
taking ball spin into account. Writing a less than perfect pinball program
isn't hard, but making the collisions affect the ball spin can make things
complicated.

-- 
  Juri Munkki					       Windsurf: fast sailing
 jmunkki@hut.fi					      Macintosh: fast software

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