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Re: The airlock area

The Arena rules say that the horizontal rails are 19" off the ground, and the figure in section 7.1 shows that they are colored red or blue, but there does not appear to be a vivid lime-green or hot-pink target like the targets of the game pieces.


It's "detectable", but it'll be pretty hard, especially when the 'bot is viewing it from various distances and/or angles.


To be honest, I was thinking about the very same problem, but at the side stations, not the corners. I was considering how hard it'd be to detect and discriminate those red/blue borders on those plexiglass shields that the "Specialists" get to sit behind.

I haven't played with the camera or software yet, so I'm not sure how simple or hard of a task that might be yet.
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