The surface of this JOOLA Perseus MOD TA-15 pickleball paddle is intended to add friction or “grip” to the ball:
If we zoom in on a subregion, we can see the details of the “peaky” texture:
This texture looks very much like this woven rain jacket fabric that’s also in our Surface Library. In fact, if we invert the paddle surface using OmniSurf3D (Analysis Settings > Data Inversion > Invert), the surface looks remarkably like fabric!
It’s quite possible that the surface of the tooling that created the paddle surface was created by imprinted fabric, creating ridges in both directions. Clever stuff!
You can compare this paddle surface with the surface of this Garyce Paddle or the Vufoxt paddle also in the Surface Library. It’s fascinating to see the differences!
Measured via Zygo ZeGage Plus (10x)
Data source: Digital Metrology
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How to cite
If you use this dataset, please reference it as follows:
Digital Metrology Solutions. “Surface Library.” Digitalmetrology, digitalmetrology.com/dataset/pickleball-paddle-3. Accessed Nov 18, 2024.