# What is *pooltool*?

Pooltool is a general purpose billiards simulator crafted specifically for science and engineering.

Its core design principles focus on speed, flexibility, and the ease of visualization and analysis. With an interactive 3D interface, a robust API, and extensive documentation, pooltool aims to be a systemic tool in billiards-related research. Continuously evolving through active maintenance and bolstered by a growing community, this vision for pooltool emphasizes not just its current capabilities, but also its potential for growth and adaptation within billiards simulation.

Pooltool is peer-reviewed and published in the **Journal of Open Source Software** (JOSS) and **pyOpenSci**.

[![DOI](https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07301/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07301)
[![pyOpenSci Peer-Reviewed](https://pyopensci.org/badges/peer-reviewed.svg)](https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-review/issues/173)

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   getting_started/index
   examples/index
   resources/index
   autoapi/index
   license/index
```