9 Nov
2013
9 Nov
'13
12:48 p.m.
On 11/9/2013 4:10 AM, Bill Gosper wrote:
Recall years ago when the subject was the baseball stitch, we came up with *one piece* covers of arbitrarily low stretch, based on sphericons and fruit peels. gosper.org/onepiececover.png , gosper.org/tennis.gif It seems to me someone should manufacture tennis balls like this, just for the novelty.
An interesting idea (although novelty isn't what you want in a tennis ball). The symmetry is different so it might have and affect on the aerodynamics depending on the spin axis. Brent Meeker