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Re: Poof Ball Dynamics
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Originally Posted by John Neun
Our contact point is very short, so the ball has to be accelerated very quickly.
would the gains that you would recieve by elongating the contact point be worth the effort of setting it up so that you would have a overall greater velocity? (i.e. some sort of pulleys/belt system)

Or is the small contact point more than enough to accelerate the ball to an ideal velocity?
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