well if you don't want to pay for math classes at a college you can probably just grab the formulas from a book somewhere.
Josh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL: kutztownstudent skype: jkenn337 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Kitchen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charles Rivard" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:13 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's baseball game > Hi Charles, Josh and Nail, > > I will think about the pitch thing in my baseball game. However I should > tell you that I never even graduated high school and thus do not have a > mathematics degree in physics or probability or anything like that. So I > would have no idea how to program the math of the trajectory of the ball > from the pitchers mound to home plate. I do know that when one throws a > curve ball you put a spin on the ball so that the stitches of the ball > grab the air and it causes the ball to curve on it's way to the plate. > The slider and sinker you spin the ball in a different direction and it > causes the ball to dip as it approaches the plate. A fast ball again is > spun in a different direction and thrown so hard that there is little > motion side to side or up and down. A change up is thrown in the same > manner as the fast ball only with less speed in an effort to throw off the > batters timing. The knuckle and screw ball are thrown with as little spin > as possible and they move side to side and up and down erratically on > their way to the plate. But how to program the math for all of that to > happen with you determining the direction, force, angle and spin of the > ball is way beyond me. And then there would be the probability of the > batter laughing as the ball hit the batter in the on deck circle or if the > pitch made it to the plate whether he would swing at it and the > probability of him being able to hit it depending on how you threw it. I > would just have no idea how to program all of that. > > I wonder how they do it for the Play Station, Sega, Nintendo, XBox and the > other game systems that have baseball games. > > > Jim > > I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
