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  1. In Topic: best brand of paint

    19 April 2013 - 05:18 PM

    View Postdrg, on 18 April 2013 - 04:56 PM, said:

    View Postmr.satire, on 18 April 2013 - 04:24 PM, said:

    View Postdrg, on 18 April 2013 - 02:41 AM, said:

    View Postmr.satire, on 17 April 2013 - 07:28 PM, said:

    On a related topic, I will be doing testing, on different paints, but the goal will not be to determine the best brand of paint but rather the best qualities for a paintball.

    Im doing this as my senior project for college, and the hope will be to design a theoretical ball, that has a lower drag, better lift..and possibly better accuracy.

    If anything I should be able to get a computerized flow model, and determine what causes the inaccuracies in a paintball.

    I will be posting the data and results here, but I wont be testing until the Fall


    I would caution not to lose sight of the fact that the ultimate measure of a paintball's "quality" is its ability to eliminate other players. A rock-hard perfect sphere that shot extremely accurately but only broke 1/10 times would make a poor paintball. A paintball with clear fill would also make a poor paintball (under normal field conditions).


    The focus is on the shape of the ball rather than all of its qualities, basically the goal will be to figure out what is the ideal spherical single seam object, in terms of flight dynamics.


    Yes that has traditionally been the focus and it has not been very fruitful. When there are much greater differences in paintball effectiveness that IMO people are overlooking.

    I agree with what you are saying but how a paintball breaks and fill is down to the gelatin composition. I am mechanical engineer so I dont really know that stuff, fluid dynamics I do thus my focus on the shape and flight path

  2. In Topic: best brand of paint

    18 April 2013 - 04:24 PM

    View Postdrg, on 18 April 2013 - 02:41 AM, said:

    View Postmr.satire, on 17 April 2013 - 07:28 PM, said:

    On a related topic, I will be doing testing, on different paints, but the goal will not be to determine the best brand of paint but rather the best qualities for a paintball.

    Im doing this as my senior project for college, and the hope will be to design a theoretical ball, that has a lower drag, better lift..and possibly better accuracy.

    If anything I should be able to get a computerized flow model, and determine what causes the inaccuracies in a paintball.

    I will be posting the data and results here, but I wont be testing until the Fall


    I would caution not to lose sight of the fact that the ultimate measure of a paintball's "quality" is its ability to eliminate other players. A rock-hard perfect sphere that shot extremely accurately but only broke 1/10 times would make a poor paintball. A paintball with clear fill would also make a poor paintball (under normal field conditions).


    The focus is on the shape of the ball rather than all of its qualities, basically the goal will be to figure out what is the ideal spherical single seam object, in terms of flight dynamics.

  3. In Topic: best brand of paint

    17 April 2013 - 07:28 PM

    On a related topic, I will be doing testing, on different paints, but the goal will not be to determine the best brand of paint but rather the best qualities for a paintball.

    Im doing this as my senior project for college, and the hope will be to design a theoretical ball, that has a lower drag, better lift..and possibly better accuracy.

    If anything I should be able to get a computerized flow model, and determine what causes the inaccuracies in a paintball.

    I will be posting the data and results here, but I wont be testing until the Fall

  4. In Topic: best brand of paint

    16 April 2013 - 09:17 AM

    As far as I know none has done anything with paint testing, other than a few tests with dimpling (Rap 4 had something) and a few tests looking at the effect of dimples, and seams.


    Funny thing though, I am planning on doing testing on different brands of paint as my college senior project, looking at accuracy, and the factors that contribute to a paintballl's accuracy.

    I am planning to do most of what you suggest along with a wind tunnel and computer simulation to look at the aerodynamic affects

  5. In Topic: Planet Eclipse Ego LV1...

    11 April 2013 - 03:34 PM

    View PostPaintball junky, on 11 April 2013 - 03:31 PM, said:

    Empire axe is microless!;D and they still have a little tube!

    The axe has an air transfer tube, only difference is that it is inside the grip, so same concept.


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