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. Introducing the Secutor piece, and new collision-capture, on a Gustavian board (zrf available).[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝M Winther wrote on Mon, Oct 2, 2006 03:05 PM UTC:

But collision movement, and bounce-movement, were designed to be wholly
intuitive, coinciding with physical laws (cannon-jumps might be more
difficult however). When a billiard ball 'collides' orthogonally with
another ball, it will continue in one of two diagonal directions (or come
to a halt). It also collides against the margin and then continues in
another direction. Likewise 'bouncing' occurs when the piece bounces off
in the alignment direction (against another piece), like in a pinball game.
Of course, it will take time to understand these pieces. Perhaps they will
never become popular. But, regardless, it's fun to try something new. At 
least it's interesting to investigate their properties.

Mats