Aimpoint [UPD]
Clarabella Doom
I took the class a couple of years back and loved it. The way they teach you to read the greens is very useful. The best thing I learned from it was that speed is very important. Before I use to hear that you wanted to hit it about 3 feet past the hole on the right line to. After aimpoint I now try to hit it no more than a foot past the hole.
How well would this work with Bermuda? Since there may not be much, if any, undulation in the green, but the grain will cause the ball to move one way or the orher. You can't feel it in your feet while standing on it, and you can't see it, the ball breaks as it slows down, it's almost like you have to k ow what it will do. How does aimpoint work without being able to see or feel any break?
I am an aimpoint user for about 3 years. I use midpoint and express. I have learned to feel the difference in different shoes. I actually have wood boards at different slopes in my basement so I can practice my feel. Just take your level to the course, wear your shoes and calibrate your feet, you will learn the feel of different shoes very quickly.
Good Luck
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I am an aimpoint user for about 3 years. I use midpoint and express. I have learned to feel the difference in different shoes. I actually have wood boards at different slopes in my basement so I can practice my feel. Just take your level to the course, wear your shoes and calibrate your feet, you will learn the feel of different shoes very quickly.
Good Luck
Make Everything
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My golfing buddy has grown his own sections of sloped grass. He felt the boards weren't realistic enough.
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Jeez guys, I get that it sounds a bit over-analytical, but come on!
I've noticed differences in Aimpoint feels with thinner soled shoes vs the shoes I normally wear to play golf, so I thought it was a legitimate question from someone who's never used spikes of any kind before. Figured it would be easier to ask here than go spend $150 on a new pair of shoes and find that I didn't like the results.
Also, Northgolf, I realize balance is a vestibular/visual result, but Aimpoint is not about balance, its dealing with pressure points. My question was would those pressure points be different while wearing spikes vs. flat soled shoes. I tend to think it would be, but I suppose you could get used to anything and as long as I use the level to calibrate with new shoes, it should be an easy adjustment after a couple sessions.
Back to the cold.....dreaming about spring already....
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Yes, I know what aimpoint is about, I just think the aimpoint guys are a bit weak on perceptual psychology, but that is my bias as my thinking is in line with the reading techniques in Geoff Mangum's "Optimal Putting". The point I was attempting to make is perception calibrates to new shoes almost instantly due to the constant feedback from walking on the varying terrain of the golf course along with a constant comparison with balance and visual feedback. The question in my mind is why would the aimpoint "pressure points" mask that information?
The aimpoint is the location in chip coordinates on the detector where the target lands. The aimpoint coordinates also depend on whether a Y or Z offset was specified. This is different than the focal point, which is the location of the sharpest (narrowest) PSF. The focal point may also be called the "on-axis position".
The nominal aimpoints are not explicitly given in the data products since they are only used during proposal planning. The aimpoint of the observation has sky coordinates of approximately (4096.5,4096.5) for ACIS observations, (16384.5,16384.5) for HRC-I observations, and (32768.5,32768.5) for HRC-S observations. The aimpoint is different each proposal cycle because of thermal relaxation of spacecraft structures.
When using the TGP you make a SPI, and then by pressing OSB-10 you change from STP to OA1 (offset aimpoint 1) and then make another SPI so you can cycle two targets. This seems like a very handy method to cycle targets within a single SPI as far as i understand it. And you can even have two offset aimpoints so total 3 targets withing a single SPI if you want.
The aimpoint algorithms being developed at Dr. Weight and Associates are based on the concept of fuzzy logic. This approach does not require a particular type of sensor data or algorithm type, but allows the user to develop a fuzzy logic algorithm based on existing aimpoint algorithms and models. This provides an opportunity for the user to upgrade an existing system design to achieve higher performance at minimal cost. Many projects have aimpoint algorithms which are based on 'crisp' logic rule based algorithms. These algorithms are sensitive to glint, corner reflectors, or intermittent thruster firings, and to uncertainties in the a priori estimates of angle of attack. If these projects are continued through to a demonstration involving a launch to hit a target, it is quite possible that the crisp logic approaches will need to be upgraded to handle these important error sources.
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