flying-discs 0.6.0a0

Implementation of physical models for flying sport discs.

🥏 Flying Discs

This Python repository contains modules and algorithms that can calculate trajectories of flying sports discs. The repository includes non-physical and physical model based algorithms and parameterizations for calculating the trajectories.

🤔 Why create this project?

This project can be used by researchers, sports enthusiasts, and anyone interested in studying or improving the performance of flying sports discs. The open-source nature of this project also allows for contributions and enhancements by the community, further improving its capabilities and usefulness.

🔬 Included disc models

S. Hummel, "Frisbee Flight Simulation and Throw Biomechanics" University of California, Davis, 2003.

The base model for calculation of a flying discs trajectory. The model was researched by L.Hannah in [L. Hannah, Constraining Frisbee Tracking Methods Through Bayesian Analysis of Flying Disc Models 2017.] She and her initiator T. McClintock initial published the code in the repository Frisbee_Simulator. Recently this was re-written in a Python library FrisPy. The library solves the models ODE, allowing for increased parameterizations and precision.

As the FrisPy library is not actively maintained this repository includes refactored code under flying_discs.frispy.scipy_backend and tests. Kudos to T. McClintock(https://www.linkedin.com/in/t-mcclintock) for his work on the FrisPy library.

I added a faster version by adopting the ODE FrisPy library using JAX as solving backend. Found in flying_discs.frispy.jax_backend. A comparison notebook can be found under notebooks.

V. Morrison, “The physics of frisbees” Mount Allison University Physics Department, vol. 1, 2005.

The Morrison model is a Euler approximation of S. A. Hummel, Frisbee Flight Simulation and Throw Biomechanics. University of California, Davis, 2003. using constants.

Constants

• G. Stilley and D. Carstens, “Adaptation of the Frisbee flight principle to delivery of special ordnance,” in 2nd Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, in Guidance, Navigation, and Control and Co-located Conferences. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1972. doi: 10.2514/6.1972-982.
• K. Yasuda, “Flight and aerodynamic characteristics of a flying disk,” Japanese Soc. Aero. Space Sci, vol. 47, no. 547, pp. 16–22, 1999.
• S. A. Hummel, Frisbee Flight Simulation and Throw Biomechanics. University of California, Davis, 2003.
• V. Morrison, “The physics of frisbees” Mount Allison University Physics Department, vol. 1, 2005.
• W. J. Crowther and J. R. Potts, “Simulation of a spin-stabilised sports disc,” Sports Engineering, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 3–21, 2007.
• L. Hannah, “Constraining Frisbee Tracking Methods Through Bayesian Analysis of Flying Disc Models,” 2017.

🚀 Get Started

Installation

pip3 install flying-discs

👩‍🏫 Example

Jupyter notebooks can be found under notebooks.

Morrison Example

from flying_discs.morrison.constants import MorrisonUltrastar
from flying_discs.morrison.coordinates import MorrisonPosition3D
from flying_discs.morrison.linear import MorrisonLinearCalculator

disc = MorrisonLinearCalculator(MorrisonUltrastar())

Z0 = 1
TIMESCALE = 0.033
ANGLE_OF_ATTACK = 5
V0 = 14
DIRECTION_ANGLE = 0

throw = disc.calculate_trajectory(
    MorrisonPosition3D(z=Z0),
    V0,
    ANGLE_OF_ATTACK,
    DIRECTION_ANGLE,
    TIMESCALE,
)

📃 Documentation

Some doc-strings are already added. Documentation is a work-in-progress and will be updated on a time by time basis.

💃🕺 Contribution

I welcome everybody contributing to this project. Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information. Feel free to open an issue on the project if you have any further questions.

💻 Development

The repository provides tools for development using hatch. hatch manages dev tools for all compatible Python versions.

Standard development Python version is Python 3.10 for now. All dependencies for to develop in the project can be found in a requirements-file.

Install the development dependencies.

pip3 install -r requirements/dev.txt

or

pip3 install "flying-discs[dev]"

Tools

To run all development tools, type checking, linting and tests hatch is required.

make all

Type checking

Type checking with mypy.

make mypy

Linting

Linting with pylint.

make lint

Tests

Run tests with pytest.

make test

Update dependencies

Update python requirements with pip-compile.

make update

🧾 License

This repository is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for more information.

Please note that while the LGPLv3 allows for the use of the code in proprietary software projects, any modifications to the code must also be released under the LGPLv3.