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Many sports balls develop forces that change their motion due to spin, or the Magnus effect. Spin causes the boundary layer separation points to change leading to an asymmetric pressure distribution on the ball, and therefore a force. Seams on baseballs can play a similar role without spin. Th...
I used to find a hexagonal pattern of dimples on an unprinted part of the golf ball and use a Sharpie marker to color them in with one extra dimple colored either side of the hexagon forming a diamond shape. It took longer than expected when getting a sleeve of balls and marking them ...
Many observers of the game of golf, including the legendary Jack Nicklaus, are advocating for the powers that be to roll back how far the golf ball travels. Well, what form would that take? Golf could go back to the ball that was used for hundreds of years. It was called a “feather...
Everybody wants a golf ball that goes faster and farther, but TaylorMade’s latest improvements to its five-layer TP5 and TP5x focus a lot of attention on improving these balls as they lose speed. Specifically, the dimples were redesigned with a flatter, less curved bottom. The idea is ...
Step 5 – Now, draw the texture for the ball Golf balls have a distinctive dimples texture on the surface, and we will start drawing that texture now. This is a feature of the drawing that can require a bit of patience, so take it slow and don’t worry about rushing yourself! To dr...
The size and depth of the dimples also affect performance. Shallow dimples generate more spin on a golf ball than deep dimples, which increases lift and causes the ball to rise and stay in the air longer and roll less. Deep dimples generate less spin on a golf ball than shallow dimples,...
Focuses on the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to determine if a golf ball will fly. Significance of the dimples on the body of the golf ball; Benefits of the CFD software; Use of bad design information in designing golf balls.Thilmany...
Basketball designers are always trying to improve the product and build a better basketball. Inventor Marvin Palmquist created the "Hole-in-One" basketball to improve a player's grip; the ball has dimples, much like a golf ball, and can be easily palmed Michael Jordan-style by players with...
"If you think about a ping pong ball, it's completely uninteresting," Kamien said. "But then you think about a golf ball, which is similar in size, but there are dimples on it. So the thing about Lisa's work is that by controlling the patterns that you see optically, it physically...