New Game Progress

[gorrilla]

well if it is an Atlantic red haring it could be indicating any other state on the eastern seaboard








i think theres a pink floyd cover like that picture of new jersey what was it animals? dont seem to remember a fish song though!



based on that im going to assume the game will include some sort of flying pig balloon! or a laser light system!

[Greg McKaskle]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

What I heard was that text recognition (OCR) is possible, just not in real time. Color, and shape recognition is real time.

To define if something can be done in real time, you have to define what that time limit is.

IMAQ does support OCR, shape, pattern, and color matching along with binary morphology and convolutions. OCR was demonstrated early on, but in Atlanta, there were a limited number of signs, and shape recognition was selected to avoid having to train an entire font to read two words. Using OCR would have been overkill, and probably less accurate as well.

Greg McKaskle

[Spartan151]

Oooh! I have an idea!!!! We're gonna play foosball this year!!!

Eh, but in reality, I don't have any serious thoughts on what it will be.

[Aidan F. Browne]

Perhaps this entry in today's NI News is somehow relevant...http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-11420?metc=mtqgm2.

[EricH]

Aidan, you do realize that you're going to have to ref the water game at some point, right? And due to the visibility issues, you're probably going to need to be IN the water to make the right call. Are you sure you want to be in the water with a bunch of robots?

[Wetzel]

High-definition video cameras with crisp, movie-like video images

This is what I see as having a chance of being relevant. Then again, water is cool so long as I am not working at the event.


Wetzel

[ttldomination]

Although it's been mentioned before, I'll say it again, I think water is extremely unlikely.

1. Water is hard to build, yes, water is hard to build. . At regionals, if you're looking at a robot playing field with the 2-D layout of this year, and then you think about going about roughly 6 feet high. That' is a LARGE field. Also a lot of water. FIRST makes challenges, but I don't think they are cruel.

2. About Dave's fish, I have hypothesis about that. it could be that he's just trying to get the hype up about the feared water game or that the field this year will be "bumpy". The fish has scales and is generally bumpy. Expect terrain this year.

With the FTC game having some soft of terrain this year, I wouldn't be surprised to see the FRC game have some sort of terrain as well.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

2. About Dave's fish, I have hypothesis about that. it could be that he's just trying to get the hype up about the feared water game or that the field this year will be "bumpy". The fish has scales and is generally bumpy. Expect terrain this year.

Maybe the terrain will BE fish. Sushi, anyone?

[gorrilla]

or well call it super sushi saturday

or maybe mega mackeral movers? having to proccess fish would be interesting

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

Maybe the terrain will BE fish. Sushi, anyone?

Eeewwwww ... I hope not.

Consider the stench after a 3 day event under those lights

[gorrilla]

well they could be frozen and every one would have to wear jackets?

[DarkFlame145]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

2. About Dave's fish, I have hypothesis about that. it could be that he's just trying to get the hype up about the feared water game or that the field this year will be "bumpy". The fish has scales and is generally bumpy. Expect terrain this year.

I agree that it could be Dave playing some sort of a mind game with us. I wouldn't be surprised. We still love you though Dave, keep em clues coming.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by DarkFlame145

it could be Dave playing some sort of a mind game with us.

Could be?! Try 'most definitely is'. I've learned to stop listening to Dave between April and January. It makes my life a whole lot less stressful.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Could be?! Try 'most definitely is'. I've learned to stop listening to Dave between April and January. It makes my life a whole lot less stressful.

I don't go quite that far, I listen to dave and then assume anything that contains the words 'game', 'hint', 'water', or 'jello' are jokes. Other times mr. Lavery can be quite funny and informative. Plus, it is nice to read posts that are usually free from grammatical and spelling errors. (I cant say always, I haven't read all of his posts)

And about the frozen fish, try keeping fish frozen in Hawaii, or Brazil. Yeah though, frozen fish would work GREAT in Michigan, just open the window a crack.

Im still holding out for construction barrels, just cuz I want to see robots do what I want to do whenever I see them.

[gorrilla]

whats a construction barrel? is that like a 55 gallon drum