Pooltool: A sandbox billiards game that emphasizes realistic physics

[thunderbong]

https://github.com/ekiefl/pooltool

[cl3misch]

Is this post in any way motivated by the recent post about physics of colliding balls? ;-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669747

[msephton]

Very cool! I used to love Virtual Pool (original version) and this is scratching my itch. On macOS, I installed with pipx and it just worked, installing with pip failed as it usually does these days (at least for me on my setup).

[krystofee]

It would be really interesting to see an open sourced reinforcement learning agent system build on top of this. I wonder what trickshots are possible.

[a1o]

I remember playing VirtuaPool on DOS a long time ago, I don't remember the command to start it on DOS, I think it was POOL.EXE

[hoten]

My dream program is a tool that takes a video of a game on a pool table and feeds it into an interactive playback tool like this one.

There's dozens of awesome shots I wish I could experience again on demand.

[Dyac → hoten]

You might appreciate this: https://youtu.be/vsTTXYxydOE

An engineer created a mixed reality pool table (YouTube channel "Stuff Made Here", all of his stuff is great).

[ryanchants → hoten]

It would also be nice to setup a shot you missed during competition to work on.

[wiz21c]

video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkH8vPI-rds

[ziofill]

Is it standard practice to put lots of code in the `__init__.py` files?

[msephton → ziofill]

I get the feeling you know the answer, so just come out with it :)