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Need Opinions On Rule <R02-C>

Our team ill-advisedly decided to go with a fairly dark john deere green (actually came out darker then we had planned) this year on our robot thinking it would be fine since the color the camera is tracking is a very bright fluorescent green. We finally got it painted in a John Deere green and at the same time we got the axis camera up and running to track colors. For kicks we tried to see if it picked up our robot. We noticed that with no calibration the camera would track almost every shade of green... (even a green folder, the green from our desks, strangely even a light baby blue color of a flash drive hanging on a students belt) including our robot chassis. Now, seeing that it tracks all of these colors, even a shade of blue, would our green chassis be a violation of Rule <R02-C>? Obviously we know enough to calibrate the camera to only recognize the bright fluorecent green. Our concern is the less experienced teams who might not adjust their camera and leave it with default settings like we tested with. It would technically be a violation of Rule <R02-C>. An argument would be that because the camera is so unstable their camera could be tracking anything. Below are a few pictures so please give us your personal opinion. Is it dark enough to leave or should we really re-paint. The reason we are so reluctant is that we are already behind schedule and getting a new coat on there would literally push us to the deadline...

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: sorry for stretching your screens out there, trying to get re-sized ones up now.

Uncalibrated Axis Camera Screenshot


Better Picture of Color

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