yeah but maybe if he thinks it's doable someone can give him the formulas to do it with. But it might be more complex than just giving the formulas I don't know.
Josh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL: kutztownstudent skype: jkenn337 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Rivard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Jim Kitchen's baseball game > No problem about you not upgrading your existing games, Jim. They're good > games, and I'll bet nobody can beat the price of them, either. (grin) > Thanks for all the great contributions to our enjoyment. As to my > proposed > scheme for pitching, see?? Told you it would be more complex, didn't I?? > Who said it would be easy? heh heh heh. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Kitchen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Charles Rivard" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 4:13 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] --- 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]
