by Bruce Simmons

So I've always been searching for an image of a BOWLING ALLEY LANE, that was drawn to scale, and I finally gave up and decided to make my own.

On top of that, I decided to show how the PBA sport patterns would look on these lanes.  (Since those were the best examples on the web.)

I basically took the squat images on www.pba.com, used to show the design of the patterns, screen captured the lanes without the distance numbers and stretched and thinned them them to dimensions that were relatively to scale to actual lane dimensions.

It's wacky because from the bowlers perspective, the Bowling Alley does seem so much shorter and your Bowling Ball, when it hooks, seems to cover at least 6 to 10 feet of lane!!  But that's an optical illusion in our mind, much like the LARGE MOON AT MOONRISE scenario.  When you get them in your image viewer, and zoom out, they sure do look pretty thin.

I tried to stay as close to accurate with width and length to the best of my ability and I do not know if the images exactly reflect in accuracy, the laying down of the pattern!  Enjoy everyone!!
(There are smaller, almost fit to screen versions below the oil legend.)

Chameleon                        Cheetah                            Scorpion                           Shark                               Viper

Chameleon   Cheetah        Scorpion       Shark           Viper