Tonight on GeekNights, we review Denis Villeneuve's Dune (part 1). It's Dune. It's hard to imagine doing better at Duning on the big screen than this. Recall that we discussed Dune extensively on the GeekNights Book Club.
Hawkeye in tennis isnât always correct, if âcorrectâ means âdid the ball touch the white line or notâ. There is a defined acceptable margin of error for the system.
It is, however, the final arbiter of whether a ball is in or out, and, at most hardcourt tournaments now, the only arbiter due to there being no line judges.
This just means the player can technically hit a ball in and it be called out, or hit a ball out and it can be called in. Itâs just their job to play tennis within the margin of error of Hawkeye, to be sure their balls are always called in.
How accurate would you say Hawkeye is, if you had to give a back-of-the-envelope estimate? Are we talking five-nines and itâd be millions to expand it?
â The Hawk-Eye Innovations website[17] states that the system performs with an average error of 3.6 mm. The standard diameter of a tennis ball is 67 mm, equating to a 5% error relative to ball diameter. This is roughly equivalent to the fluff on the ball.â
If it was determining whether a dart has landed inside or outside the triple 20 box on a dart board, it wouldnât be accurate enough, as 3.6mm is wider than the tip of the dart.
However, it is more accurate than any player can intentionally aim a ball down the length of a tennis court. There isnât a world where a playerâs job is to hit it âless than fluff-width closer to the line or else the other player would return itâ.
Similar to hockey. Sometimes an offside challenge call comes down to millimeters that no player could possibly account for.
The rule in effect becomes more like âthe closer you push it to that edge, the more likely it is youâll fail.â It becomes a way to take a risk for a reward, but not as much a test of âhow precise can you be.â
Anyone else notice poor CGI in the movie? I was struck by it in two shots: one time there was a carryall deploying its hot air balloons, and another ship rising up out of a lake.
Those both stuck out to me as, âthat looks like a miniature, not the huge scale itâs supposed to have.â But they nailed everything else for 2 1/2 hours, so minor minor nitpick.
