pic: Three colors???

[Donut]

Originally Posted by dlavery

With a total of 12 tubes, you can individually control them to generate 4096 discrete color hues

4096 colors?

I guess the Championships were just trying to give us a false sense of security. Silly us, thinking we'd get away with only 3 colors this year.

[Fuzzy]

So 4095 more ways to get a camera-based headache

[eshteyn]

Our team has a light system that has 4 different colors - green, blue, red, and yellow. We have been using last seasons camera to do our tracking and from what I have seen our teams excellent programmer has done a great job at making our robot track all the colors, Also if im not mistaking u can set a range of values for the camera to track, so the 4095 hues shouldn't be that bad of a problem

[Donut]

I'm pretty sure the camera is one color only, and it must be re-initialized with the new color to track it.

[Hiteak]

I would think it would be easier to separate the colors into different boxes, and place them at different parts of the field, but where would be the challenge in that

[Noah Kleinberg]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

changing color configs on the fly should be no problem but searching for all three colors at the same time.... a bit more difficult.

-q

I'm not so sure about that... Maybe you tested it and it does work, as I haven't gotten to try it myself yet, but I've heard from others who have tried that it can take over a second to start tracking a new color, which is really long for autonomous...

I'll probably get to test it tomorrow and I can post how long it took to change colors for me...

[Andy B]

Someone said that there were 3 colors on Einstein last year. i wasn't there, what was that all about?

[Schnabel]

Originally Posted by Andy B

Someone said that there were 3 colors on Einstein last year. i wasn't there, what was that all about?

A trick was played saying that to separate the best of the best, the light was going to be *insert color here* during autonomous and then red 1st round, blue 2nd round, and then switching every second from red to blue to green and over again during the last round. They really tricked everyone for a while but then said that it wasn't going to happen. So know we think that it a clue.

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by Schnabel

A trick was played saying that to separate the best of the best, the light was going to be *insert color here* during autonomous and then red 1st round, blue 2nd round, and then switching every second from red to blue to green and over again during the last round. They really tricked everyone for a while but then said that it wasn't going to happen. So know we think that it a clue.

Just to add to that, the emcee, Dave Verbrugge (who was responsible for the joke), had managed to procure some lights that actually did turn to each of those colours as he named them.

[Pat McCarthy]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...96303982&hl=en
Here's Dave's trick in its entirety.
Gotta love it, he's such a practical joker.