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Subject: Find Life on Mars: Color Scheme
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From: Reid Simmons <reids+@CS.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:19:08 -0400
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Here is the current color scheme for the "Find Life on Mars" event
(subject to change, but I hope that will not be necessary).

Recall that in the first preliminary trial, there will be only one color for
"live Martians" (squiggle balls) and one for dead life-forms (balls and
cubes).  In subsequent trials, we may increase the number of colors for one,
or both, of the life-forms.

"Live Martians": 
  1) First color: Squiggle balls painted Krylon "Ramona Red" (a neon color).
  2) Second color: Squiggle balls painted Krylon "Gardenia Green".

"Dead Life-Forms"
  a) The spherical dead life-forms will be "ball pit" balls (those balls found
     in pits at places like Chuckee Cheese and McDonalds).  They are a 
     compressable plastic, almost 3" in diameter.

  1) First color: blue
  2) Second and third colors: I'm tempted to allow competitors to choose which
     second and third (if we get that far) colors they want to use.  The
     available choices are yellow, orange, purple and green.

"Landing Pen" doors
  1) The door for "live martians" will be painted Krylon "Ramona Red"
  2) The door for "dead life-forms" will be painted Krylon "True Blue"

I'm still working on finding a source for the cubical "dead life-forms".
I'll let you know as soon as I know something.

Reid