billiards

What physics engine would be good for a Silverlight pool engine?

I have looked into the Farseer engine, but I barely scratched the surface. Would it or another engine be good for a reasonably accurate pool game engine? ...

How to pre-calculate the trajectories in a billiard (pool) game?

Hi; Most collision detection algorithm in billiard uses a naive approch, where the balls' positions are incremented and then checked for collisions. This method dosen't work well when the speed are really high because we might "skip" collisions. I have been searching for a way to pre-calculate the trajectories of the balls in a billiar...

Pool Billiard AI

Im implementing a pool billiard game in Java and it all works fine. It is a multiplayer game, but nevertheless, it should also be possible to play it alone. For this purpose I'm trying to implement a simple KI. At the moment, the KI choose just randomly a direction and a random intensity of the impulse (don't know the correct english wor...