Baseball Physics Lab
Change the contact. Explore the flight in 3D.
Details
- External ID
- 1254302
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Baseball Physics Lab
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Sports, Education, Baseball, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
Description
Explore how a bat meets a ball in a physics-based 3D lab. Adjust bat angle, impact point, speed, mass and incoming spin, then compare exit speed, launch angle, spin and flight. Pin A, change a setting and compute B. Compare drag and spin-induced lift, drag only, or vacuum flight, and explore weather effects. Free in your browser and on Windows, with seven languages and flexible units. Built with Astra's help. Model-based estimates, not validated real-world predictions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle and logic games
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- 3d ball flight physics simulator for baseball players and coaches
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A 3D baseball simulation tool requires rigorous numerical integration of aerodynamic equations (Magnus effect, Reynolds-dependent drag, atmospheric pressure) and collision mechanics that match empirical physics research.
What it would actually take: The stack would be built with WebGL/Three.js or an engine like Godot/Unity compiled to WebAssembly. The hard component is implementing the continuous numerical physics engine (e.g., Runge-Kutta 4th order) incorporating Alan Nathan's baseball collision and trajectory equations, air density models, and seam-shifted wake effects.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 38 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 39 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
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- An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal · hn · 2026-01-19 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Visualize Model Spikiness in 3D · hn · 2026-07-02 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Science Trivia Quiz · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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