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From: tucker@cc.gatech.edu (Tucker Balch)
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Subject: Find Life: pens and colors
To: reids+@CS.cmu.edu (Reid Simmons)
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 15:16:08 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <16260.864841580@jubilee.learning.cs.cmu.edu> from "Reid Simmons" at May 28, 97 01:46:20 pm
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> Again, I am flexible here -- COMPEtITORS: LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU WANT/NEED AND
> WE'LL TRY TO ACCOMODATE!

Reid - thanks for the answers to the other questions.  

PENS:
Here is what is important to us regarding the pens:

	o  the doors should be exactly 50 cm wide. 
	o  the lip on the bottom should be exactly 5 cm tall.
	o  the lip and the door should be painted the same color.
	o  we want a door, not just a lip, it will provide more color
		to search for.
	o  tall walls on the pens are good.
	o  other dimensions of the pens don't matter.

COLORS:
It sounds like you're trying to help us out by making distinct colors 
for everything.  I don't know if other teams have the same problem, but 
in our case this works against us.  Our hardware is only capable of 
tracking 3 colors.  The ideal color scheme for us would be something like:

	o BLACK: rocks and danger zones
	o RED:   live martians, and live martian pen door.
	o BLUE:  dead martians and dead martian pen door.

	
--Tucker

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