JFidanza:
My diagram elevation numbers are simply theoretical, and it shows what the aim pointer would indicate if it was over those distances and elevations. It looks normal, right? If it's incorrect, tell me what's wrong.
Your diagrams are fine and your choice of theoretical numbers are quite reasonable. There is nothing wrong with your point of view that something may be wrong with the game and how it renders slope based on the OP's experience. That could very well be a problem.
I am not challenging your theory (law of physics don't seem to apply). I am just challenging the fact that you imply it is the only explanation possible of what might be going on (based on information provided), and why I responded to two of your original statements (which come across to me as final), with "not necessarily.."
JFidanza:
If you are suggesting that the hole is as you have shown in your drawing, lets find out what you would say the aim pointers elevation number is in the red question mark. '?'
If the hole is as you are stating is might be then the number, logically, has to be higher than the '-9' shown in fig. C, correct? If not, what is the number, and why and how can it be that number?
Ok, my view is that there may not be such a terrible physics bug in the software, only a limited sampling to render height differences from one putt to the next, which you actually state quite clearly yourself at the end of your post.
At the red question mark the number could be -8 in, for example. And so yes it is higher than the elevation at the hole, but only by 1 inch compared to elevation changes before the hole and beyond C on other side. My only point is that, due to limited sampling when the OP was about to perform the first putt, this short, gentler slope might be missed due to the quality of the software color rendering of the slope. So I think it's possible that there are instances of short opposite slope (between putter and hole and beyond the hole) that are masked by a single color of severe descending slope, particularly for longer putts. These intances of short opposite slope could jump out at you when looking at the shorter second putt just beyond the hole as slope colors, distances and directions are reset.
JFidanza:
Now, these drawing are nice, but show me a video or example IN THE GAME itself where this is indicated as such. If you are correct then you should be able to record this instance and provide proof.
I don't have proof for my theory. Then again I don't see proof for yours either, that the software is showing a wrong slope direction and the physics are bad. We are both relying on limited information. A limited rendering (i.e. sampling measurement) by the software does not mean that its physics model is faulty.
-Keith