Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

Look through the posts - Yes.

Fit of laughter? Idk.. maybe?

All this guessing is making me want to ask just one simple question.

Dave, how is that animation coming along? :D
Are you spending a 3rd straight winter break behind the screen of a computer running 3D Studio Max making some more funny robots do things that defy gravity?

Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

this is interesting...

http://www.waleapparatus.com/details/11_2365.asp

ACE (Amethyst Contrast Enhancer) glass can be used to "optimize the readability" of television displays under high ambient light conditions.

The banner sensors were susceptible to malfunction due to ambient light.

Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

I don't use 3D Studio Max, because I refuse to use a PC. It's all done with Lightwave on a Mac.

-dave

Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

also another thought... Maybe when they say PI, they mean something along the lines of a circle... like a circular field...

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Ah, I didn't even consider the three elements in that quote. That does seem to indicate 3 players on the field, and I think its definitley possible for FIRST to make the 6 (well probably 12 for spares) robots neccesary.

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Most def. We know Dave Lavery looks on the forums. If I was someone high up in FIRST and knew what was going on, I'd be reading this myself and laughing up a storm.


EDIT: And Dave himself proves my point between the time that I started writing this post, and the time that I hit submit . . .

Good luck finishing it up, Dave. Last year's animation was absolutely awesome ^_^

Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

Just to reinforce the baseball interpretation, most of Dave's recent posts, at least in the YMTC threads, have started with baseball analogies.

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My dad has 832 songs by the Beatles on iTunes and owns every single beatles album released in the US and the UK. Interesting.....

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my vote is the hexagonal field

Crystal system: Hexagonal-R; 32 (trigonal-trapezohedral)
is the structural shape of amethyst as per
http://www.mineralminers.com/html/ameminfo.htm

based on the nature of First, i dont think they would do away with the teamwork. While 3 vs 3 would make staging a bit more hectic, it woud make the days run faster, in theory

just my $.02

Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

I thought I had caught Dave pirating music. but he owns them so I guess he's off the hook..

Until next time dave does something of legal "blur",
Tom

Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread (Stolen bases?????)
 

They both also had stolen base records a few years apart....I don't know if this means anything.

Check out:
http://www.ilbaseball.com/sb_rec.html

-Quentin
:ahh:

Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

Perhaps if you play the game backwards, it plays another clue? (can you even do that with iTunes?)

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what about the game objects being baseballs and not kickballs or boxes?

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well a slice of pie (pi) forms a triangle, like a pyramid!

OK.... now that I got that off my back, I see two interpretations for the word between, one being between as something in the middle of these three things, or between as something in common.

my guess that the between refers to something in common, in this case, three. I do not think that a three on three alliance is conceivable because of all the logistic problems talked about in the the center is out topic. Saying that, I think that the three will be something to do with scoring objects, possibly three different types of things to score, or three places to score.

Also during the kickoff, Dave mentioned that the IR sensors weren't necessary this year (first Frenzy), but not the next (this 2005 season). I can imagine that the autonomous mode will be extremely important, possibly having the capability to score points during autonomous mode

just my $.02

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But didnt robots score points during past two year's Autonomous mode. 2003 (stack attack) robots who broke the wall had boxes in thier zone after the end of autonomous mode. Past season 2004 (FIRST frenzy) team 190 hung during autonomous (50 points).

Baseballs, i am not really supporting that idea, (this might sound crazy, cause i dont think FIRST will make a game to throw baseballs around unless the whole field is in a cage and all the drivers and human players are wearing helmets and gaurds) i am thinking about safety. what if a robot has the capibility of throw the ball somewhere? wouldnt that be a safety issue?