A man named Shane Wighton built a basketball hoop that never missed. In order to measure the shape required for the construction of the goal, a software was developed and simulation results such as shooting angle and speed were calculated. As a result, he found out that the shape of an oval and a parabolic surface, like a fruit bowl, is optimal.
It is said that the shape of the backboard is made by cutting and expanding the wood using a CNC machine, filling the cracks with spray foam, and assembling a large and soft board. Of course, the completed goal didn’t work from scratch as expected. The reason is that the simulation did not take into account the size of the ball itself. A few meters away from the basketball backboard, all shots hit the target, and the production process took over 20 minutes to be captured in the video. Related information can be found here .
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