Computers can manipulate information as light (rather than electricity or billiard balls).
This is pretty much the same issue as black vs white billiard balls.
It resembled a gray billiard ball, or would have if they'd been able to light it up.
You've got about as much brain as a retarded billiard ball.
His bald head was shining like a polished billiard ball.
From space it looked like a slightly damaged billiard ball.
A welcome had been a rarity so far in his life, he was happy to accept one anywhere, even from a talking billiard ball.
It looked exactly like a glossy green billiard ball.
There is a painting in which the billiard balls seem parachuted down onto the table.
The car became a mite scurrying across a giant billiard ball.