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Originally Posted by artdutra04
I'm 95% sure (it's good enough for Adrian Monk  ) that the reflections are entirely from this sub assembly shown in the game hint and nothing else, and that the angles of the polycarbonate part are exactly perpendicular.

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Excellent job on the reverse engineering. It appears to me that the shadow nobody can explain appears on your 50% transparency render. Is there any reason why this should be? Does it suggest that it is indeed coming from this piece and not from somewhere else? Would the fact that you had to render it with 50% transparency be part of the clue itself? I and others have suggested that maybe there will be an element to the game that will limit or alter visibility for the drive team. That would fit in well with the notion that the camera will become more important this year. Why have they given us a Classmate PC to use this year? My guess is so we can (or will have to) navigate the robot based on a camera image, and that we need the capability for real-time (within a few msec, or whatever the technology can give us) video to compete.