0 a game in which two people try to hit coloured balls into holes around the edge of a table using long, thin sticks -- bilard
Billiards are semi-focusing if their boundary components consist of pieces of cylinders and possibly some flat components.
In words, cylindric billiards are toric billiards where the scatterers are cylinders.
Uniform estimates on the number of collisions in semidispersing billiards.
We need to recall the first inputs on rational polygonal billiards.
Here we start the study of a wider class of billiards called projective billiards, free from this shortcoming.
Projective billiards include the usual billiards along with the dual, or outer, billiards.
In this section we summarize some basic properties of semi-dispersing billiards.
Estimates like that play an important role in various questions about billiards.
