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>>>Very cool Denis ... I wonder if that sound is real or dubbed in after?
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>>I'd say really because of all of the organization behind this. All the cameras and stuff.
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>That was my first thought, that it was all real. Until the very end when I see that it's an advertisement for a cell phone. Advertisers spend big bucks ... this could have all been done with CGI for all we know. <g> And we'll probably never know ...

Big bucks say this is real. The computers may have been involved in cutting the wood to exact sound, calculating the angles of everything in the ball's path. CGI would look cheap on this. We'd notice... once you saw those first attempts from the nineties, you learned to recognize the imperfections.

As Charles Stross said in "Halting state" (quoting off the top of my head, the book remained on your side of the puddle), "you can fool some pixels all the time, you can fool all the pixels some time, but you can't fool all the pixels all the time".