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Description

Pooltool is a general purpose billiards simulator crafted specifically for science and engineering.

Its core design principles focus on speed, flexibility, and the ease of visualization and analysis. With an interactive 3D interface, a robust API, and extensive documentation, pooltool aims to be a systemic tool in billiards-related research. Continuously evolving through active maintenance and bolstered by a growing community, this vision for pooltool emphasizes not just its current capabilities, but also its potential for growth and adaptation within billiards simulation.

Pooltool is peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) and pyOpenSci.

Gallery

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Installation & Documentation

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All resources are hosted at https://pooltool.readthedocs.io.

Quick links:

1. 🛠️ Installation
2. 📚 Examples
3. 🔌 API Reference

Join the community

If you want to ask questions, get help, or contribute to the codebase, please join the Discord and introduce yourself.

If the Discord link is expired, please make an issue in this repo.

Contributing

See the Contributing page in the documentation.

Blog

Many aspects of this project have been blogged about. Read the detailed account here.

Citation

If you use pooltool in your research/project/product, please cite the JOSS publication:

@article{Kiefl2024,
    doi = {10.21105/joss.07301},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07301},
    year = {2024},
    publisher = {The Open Journal},
    volume = {9},
    number = {101},
    pages = {7301},
    author = {Evan Kiefl},
    title = {Pooltool: A Python package for realistic billiards simulation},
    journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
}