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Re: Q|reflective rope

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That looks to be reflective spray, not retroreflective spray. Could just be labeled improperly though.
My bad, that was a quick search to point you in the right direction, not the exact product I was referring to, I should have specified. I know the stuff exists, both a glass-bead and a non-glass-bead variant, there should also be retroreflective fibers/string on the market somewhere...

Example retroreflective Vaient: http://www.volvocars.com/uk/about/hu...ects/lifepaint
And the article: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/lifepa...lective-paint/

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...will ping off the paint and make anything covered with it look like a glowing blob. It’s easy to see a glowing blob.
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Re: Q|reflective rope

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My favourite quote from the article:
"...will ping off the paint and make anything covered with it look like a glowing blob. It’s easy to see a glowing blob."
I like this one even better:

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...another water-soluble version of the paint called “Horse and Pets” that you can spray right onto horses, dogs, cats, and other critters that keep running into the road—or that you want to invite to your next rave.
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Re: Q|reflective rope

R07(c): Any devices or decorations specifically intended to jam or interfere
with the remote sensing capabilities of another ROBOT, including
vision systems, acoustic range finders, sonars, infrared proximity
detectors, etc. (e.g. including imagery on your ROBOT that, to a
reasonably astute observer, mimics the retro-reflective features of
vision targets described in Section 3.13 Vision Targets)

Even though this rule is about the robot, I think that its better to be safe than sorry and apply it to the rope to.
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Re: Q|reflective rope

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R07(c): Any devices or decorations specifically intended to jam or interfere
with the remote sensing capabilities of another ROBOT, including
vision systems, acoustic range finders, sonars, infrared proximity
detectors, etc. (e.g. including imagery on your ROBOT that, to a
reasonably astute observer, mimics the retro-reflective features of
vision targets described in Section 3.13 Vision Targets)

Even though this rule is about the robot, I think that its better to be safe than sorry and apply it to the rope to.
(Bold added by me for emphasis)

This starts down the tricky path of intent. I would argue that the rope could be painted with retro-reflective coating, at least acorrdinget to just this rule. Partly because the rope would not reasonable be within the line of sight of opposing robots while they are trying to take shots.

That said there are many other options for tracking a rope. They do make rope with retro-reflective braids woven in. Additionally bright colored neon rope could serve the exact same purpose.


Obviously I am not an authority figure and you should not take my answer as anything but the possible lawyeringredients of the rules.
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Re: Q|reflective rope

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R07(c): Any devices or decorations specifically intended to jam or interfere
with the remote sensing capabilities of another ROBOT, including
vision systems, acoustic range finders, sonars, infrared proximity
detectors, etc. (e.g. including imagery on your ROBOT that, to a
reasonably astute observer, mimics the retro-reflective features of
vision targets described in Section 3.13 Vision Targets)

Even though this rule is about the robot, I think that its better to be safe than sorry and apply it to the rope to.
So which of the field provided vision targets is a vertical, reflective (or retroreflective) 1" wide strip 5' long?. If the answer is "none", then I don't know how you could argue it is intended to interfere with sensing capabilities.
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