[Hopperxx] simple frisbee math?

[Buzz Kettles]

I meant an ellipse in a roughly horizontal plane (that's the boomerang-ish
part) combined with vertical gravity to pull the whole thing down

I gues I should have asked - is this real 3D or faked in 2D?


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:

> It’s the later part of the flight that need to be “floaty”. An ellipse
> would dive down at the end.
>
> BTW, this just to be a side view, and I’m not worried about whether the
> frisbee should veer left or right. Also the disc will remain horizontal,
> it’s just the height off the ground I want to be right.
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Buzz Kettles <buzzkett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I'd use an ellipse
>
>
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