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🏀 Free-Throw Entry-Angle Lab: Rim Window and Optimal Launch Angle

Basketball free-throw physics lab: entry angle, rim clearance window, backspin and the launch angle that maximises scoring probability.

Sports Physics & Biomechanics3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender

⚙ Under the hood

A basketball free-throw simulator with a torus rim, backboard and spin-coupled contact. It measures how the clear opening of the hoop grows with entry angle (against the closed form 2(Rc - (r+rho)/sin a)) and finds the launch angle that scores most under human release scatter.

projectileentry anglerim collisionbackspinoptimisation

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install