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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
If there are many machines like pumping balls in the hoop like this Video from Rage, I am very concerned about the ability of the scoring system!!!
Joe J. |
I would be more concerned with the One Point goals. They are a few feet wide, and the only sensor is a camera on top that picks up breaks in a band of light on the floor. (The center goal uses a sensor in the tube that feeds the human player, and only one ball can pass it at a time.)
Woodie said they bought 30-something new dual core computers, which will be dedicated to running the real time scoring at events. Yes, any algorithm to track the path of many balls passing through the light beam at a time would be tough, but I wouldn't put it past some of the minds FIRST has working with them.