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minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 hours ago Read somewhere that catching is actually dead simple, just “move towards the image of the incoming target” I mean… there is nothing simple about the calculations involved in something like that lol. That’s like countless differential equations per second.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoNo, IIRC it was just : film the ball and repetedly do: “is the ball to the left, go left. Is it a little to the left, go little to the left” etc. Like a PID but with only the P part. I don’t know if it makes any sense :-)
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I mean… there is nothing simple about the calculations involved in something like that lol. That’s like countless differential equations per second.
No, IIRC it was just : film the ball and repetedly do: “is the ball to the left, go left. Is it a little to the left, go little to the left” etc.
Like a PID but with only the P part. I don’t know if it makes any sense :-)