8759
TOPICS
LATEST
ABOUT
AUTHORING AREA
PARTICIPATE
Your browser does not support JavaScript or it may be disabled!
Hoop Dreams
You can shoot a basketball from anywhere on the half court. Select the player's position and the speed and vertical angle of the shot. When you are close enough to the basket, you can do a slam dunk. Reset the trigger for another shot.
Contributed by:
S. M. Blinder
Inspired by a Demonstration by: Aaron Guan Yilun, Martin Luigi Quang, and Lin Mao
THINGS TO TRY
Rotate and Zoom in 3D
SNAPSHOTS
RELATED LINKS
Basketball Shot
(
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
)
PERMANENT CITATION
S. M. Blinder
"
Hoop Dreams
"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/HoopDreams/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: February 2, 2012
Share:
Embed Interactive Demonstration
New!
Just copy and paste this snippet of JavaScript code into your website or blog to put the live Demonstration on your site.
More details »
Download Demonstration as CDF »
Download Author Code »
(preview »)
Files require
Wolfram
CDF Player
or
Mathematica
.
Related Demonstrations
More by Author
Basketball Shot
Aaron Guan Yilun, Martin Luigi Quang, and Lin Mao
Composition of a Table Tennis Blade
Quang-Dao Trinh
How Fast Can You Run?
S. M. Blinder
Weaving
Giovanna Roda
Eggs using Spherical Coordinates
Michael Schreiber
Interwoven Threads
Giovanna Roda
Olympic Pole Vaulting
S. M. Blinder
Egg Colored with Sinusoids
John G. Cramer, Jr.
Egg Colored by Gradients
Kathryn Cramer and Michael Schreiber
Egg Colored Using Polynomials
John G. Cramer, Jr.
Related Topics
3D Graphics
Everyday Life
Physics
Recreation
Browse all topics
Note: To run this Demonstration you need Mathematica 7+ or the free Mathematica Player 7EX
Download or upgrade to
Mathematica Player 7EX
I already have
Mathematica Player
or
Mathematica 7+