SLP Mo-Cap via “Fly Fisher” (Japan)

Posted on July 28, 2009, 8:38 am, by JB, under Casting, Magazines, Technical.

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My friend, and fellow casting geek, Tomonori “Bill” Higashi, e-mailed me a few months back asking if I had a good mo-cap sequence showing SLP (that would the “Straight Line Path” of the rod tip during a cast, which is actually only straight for part of the cast, and then only for casts where it you want it to be straight, and then…but I digress). The answer was “Yes, I have such a critter, and here it is.” Acutally it was not too much more than the graphic from this FF&W page.

Anyway, the graphic ended up as a lead-in for one of the articles in “Fly Fisher” magazine (guess what the subject matter is?), so I thought I’d toss part of the page up here. Any Japanese-speaking FF&W readers care to translate the article headline?

It is my hope that the work being done of this kind (and this kind) will help casters worldwide, in all languages, gain a stronger and more accurate understanding of what is really happening out there in 3-D casting space.

And in that vein, keep watching here at FF&W—I have some ideas, both small and large—to further casting education and understanding…

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