Most of my time this week was dedicated to learning how to best figure out the physics simulation for the software side of the project. I have been reading different papers and watching YouTube videos from people to try and best understand how the physics engine should work. Linked below are the papers I read and video I watched. I am also debating between using a graph approach or some sort of heat map with intermediate value theorem for our simulation. Additionally, I looked into Amazon and Facebook Marketplace to try and find any cheap pool tables to use for our project. I am currently on schedule and will begin to start coding the simulation next week. I hope to be able to fully simulate a pool shot within the next two weeks.
https://ekiefl.github.io/2020/04/24/pooltool-theory/
https://blog.roboflow.com/pool-table-analytics-object-detection/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTTXYxydOE&t=1072s