Official Data Thread

[tae]

Broken links

I was giving this thing a read and it seems the links are down(again?).
Solid information is seeming harder to find

[noahyay]

I would really like to see the graphs if they exist still...

[Faku]

Where you get it???

[bjjb99]

Thanks for fixing the paintball spin pics and the pressure plots, Tom.

BJJB

[blueshifty]

THE TIFF FILES FOR THE PAINTBALL SPIN PICS CAN BE FOUND HERE:

spin data

Anybody know where this file can be found?

[SilverJR]

Possible to fix the links or possibly provide me with the source files?


I <3 Data

[Menace_AO]

^^^^^^ I would also add to this chorus.

[Bunny]

Necropost. I have a bunch of these pictures. Back in 2002, TK had to compress most of the pictures. I will try to reupload with a better resolution. Check the first page for a few updates.

[Menace_AO]

[Bunny]

I restored thread the best I could. Enjoy!

[Menace_AO]

Thank you!

Now if we can only track down the rest of that data.

Just don't want to let this stuff slip away beyond recovery.


Am constantly reminded how much TK did to advance this sport, and how much of the history of paintball ever since has been a parade of people forgetting what he did, making silly mistakes/claims on the basis of that ignorance, and then, to correct the problem, rediscovering a small fraction of what he already put out there.

[BigEvil]

..and here is why we see the RT mag was far superior to the competition. I would love to see it vs some newer guns.

Hey Menace, maybe we should steal Carl Jr's Virtue chrono and put some strings over it and compare a few different guns? We have enough

[Menace_AO]

I'm down.

[Laku]

Vortex shedding link was still found from wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20030728.../cylinder.html

[bjjb99]

Okay... found the larger versions of the paintball spin data that Bunny has re-uploaded. The larger versions are in .tif format, and I have uploaded them in the following location:

http://www.pbase.com/bjjb99/historic_paintball_data

Please download them and use them.

I have some old analyses of the spin data indicating that spin alone could not explain the deviations from straight-line flight seen in the strobe images. It's in a format that my current computer can no longer read (gotta love 15-year-old file formats!). Working on converting it to something more modern.

BJJB