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Re: rtl 13 Pics and Video
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003 02:05:45 GMT
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"Trevyn Watson" <4tee2@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> Separating bricks from rice shouldn't be too hard, EXCEPT for the rice
> that would end up INSIDE the bricks. So I thought to myself, "Self, how
> could one stop rice from getting INSIDE the bricks?" and then I thought,
> "Self, one could put a 2x4 plate (of the same colour) on the bottom of
> the brick." and then I thought, "Self, that's and excellent idea! Why
> don't you (I?) go post that to the rtlToronto newsgroup?" and then I
> thought "Self, I think I will go do that." And so here I am.
I'm sort of thinking that no one's addressed the issue of bringing rice out
onto our side of the feild, so there's no penalty thus far for bringing rice
out.
...and I theorise it's going to stay that way, because NO ONE is going to
come up with a way to measure the amount of rice thrown out of the bin onto
each side.
> I also thought, "What would happen if one put a plate on the bottom of a
> 2x4 brick, and a tile on top?" and so I did. It turns out that if one
> does that, one gets a shape whose short sides are 0.006 cm (~0.002" for
> you inchy people) away from being square. This would make manipulation
> of the bricks far easier.
That's very cool, it'd be identical to mini-versions of the cubes we used
for Maxwell's Demons and BlockStacking.
> And another thing I thought of: where should the white bricks be at the
> end? Should they be back in the box? Or can they be out on the floor?
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> And what about the black bricks? Should they be contained within your
> bot, or on the floor on your side of the arena?
These are things we argued at dinner, and I think we all agreed that we'll
count the blocks within the "negative space" (Not-bin space, [-shaped),
since if you say "Within the robot" you have to decide what's a bin, it
limits the design to HAVING a bin, etc..... you'd impose a design
restriction based on a scoring method.
Iain
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| (...) I was actually more concerned about rice gumming up the works in a bot (like Bruce said) than about penalties. I don't see why there should be any penalty for bringing rice out, and as you said, it would be hard to measure the rice. We'll just (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| I was thinking about this a bit, and here is what I thought: Separating bricks from rice shouldn't be too hard, EXCEPT for the rice that would end up INSIDE the bricks. So I thought to myself, "Self, how could one stop rice from getting INSIDE the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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