"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I was just checking out some further stuff on this and found:
>
> http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/files/2012/09/PWjWR.gif
>
> Wowza.  :O
> That looks like a cool spherical harmonic isosurface to model!   ;)
>
> from:
>
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2012/09/15/weekend-diversion-the-physics-of-happy-gilmore/

Heck, I knew a golf club bends a little and ball would deform slightly but sure
didn't realize it was like that.
The 50 pound plate hit makes the ball look unreal. In fact, I can hardly believe
it isn't bursting apart instead of flattening out, and then able to reshape like
a soft-boiled egg.

Once when a teenager I peeled a golf ball down to a small inner rubber core
(liquid-filled? I forget), lots of rubbery strands between the hard plastic
shell and that. Just never thought of the shell itself as being pliable enough
to stretch so much.

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