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== MSN convo, 2009Dec01 ==

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(14:08:45) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: also I'd have to weigh up if
 it's worth doing, but it owuld be fun to have "Impossible pool"
(14:11:01) nemo: aye
(14:11:30) nemo: also, weighted/magnetic pool ;)
(14:11:50) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: hrmmm
(14:11:55) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: interesting...
(14:17:58) nemo: drill and embed magnets into the balls...and embed some under t
he table... 
(14:18:51) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: heh... I can imagine a ball 
rolling along, then it suddenly flies off, or slows down
(14:19:14) nemo: veers... 
(14:19:30) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: you would want strong enough
 magnets to have an effect, but not strong enough to stop the ball dead
(14:19:34) nemo: aye
(14:19:39) nemo: easy enough to tune that though
(14:20:04) nemo: and the rack has to be stable
(14:22:05) nemo: I like the idea of defence magnets 
(14:22:07) nemo: oooh
(14:22:10) nemo: I know
(14:22:10) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: it would be nice (interestin
g) to mix pool and pinball
(14:22:14) nemo: yeah
(14:22:16) nemo: but but but
(14:22:21) nemo: all the 'bigs'
(14:22:29) nemo: are outwardly north
(14:22:35) nemo: and all the smalls are outwardly south
(14:23:04) nemo: and then your turn can be either to knock the balls around, or 
to rearrange the magnets under the table
(14:23:36) nemo: so you might place all the north magnets under the table near a
 hole that is a contender for bigs... as defence
(14:24:02) nemo: and also, it then acts as an attractant for smalls' balls until
l/unless bigs take a magnet play
(14:24:53) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: use a slow-moving spiragraph
 type geared set up to move the magnets around the table
(14:24:59) nemo: hehe
(14:25:07) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: so you couldn't just 'learn 
the table'
(14:25:30) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: what about the cue ball?
(14:25:44) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: one half outwardly noth, one
 half outwardly south?
(14:25:49) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: north*
(14:26:59) nemo: yeah, options... also, cue tips
(14:27:05) nemo: but... I think leaving those neutral is safest
(14:27:13) nemo: ditto 8ball
(14:28:49) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: how possible would it be to 
set up a mini electromagnet that flips polarity?
(14:29:00) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: or is that impossible/imprac
tical
(14:29:48) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: then you could put a random 
relay on it, and so it changed polarity, and you can never be sure which it is
(14:30:10) nemo: that could work, but starting to get into overkill I think
(14:30:49) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: haha and mechanical magnets 
moving under the table isn't? I moved into overkill territory a while ago
(14:31:03) nemo: true, I wasn't gonna say anything then ;P
(14:31:33) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: I like the idea of implement
ing some pinball elements with the pool table, though
(14:31:38) nemo: http://wiki.thorx.net/wiki/Talk:PoolTable
(14:31:44) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: just the occasional rack, an
d a few buymbers
(14:31:44) nemo: (I just logged this MSN to there :)
(14:32:09) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: heh laf
(14:33:12) WAKAKAKAKA!!! Dr. Roberto El Cammembert: but for a starting point, pu
tting an optical illusion on the table shouldn't be TOO difficult
(14:33:25) nemo: yeah :)
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