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> The cameras had trouble distinguishing red and orange faces, so they painted the orange faces black to make them stand out better. This is awesome. I love th

> The cameras had trouble distinguishing red and orange faces, so they painted the orange faces black to make them stand out better. This is awesome. I love that this is what they did to solve this problem, versus something overly technical, like tuning the cameras or post-processing the images.

tantalor 9y ago
Or, they cheated They also overtightened it
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 9y ago
  Eh, even the official rules for people AFACT[0] only require that the colors be distinct; special exceptions are also afforded for people with visual disabilities. [0] https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#article-3-puzzles https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#article-3-...
  - lostlogin 9y ago
    It’s not really a disability when you can’t detect a difference between 2 colours in tenths to hundredths of a second.
    - naiveai 9y ago
      Dude, it's a robot. And the very fact that they were able to do this, regardless, is amazing.
- castis 9y ago
  Cheating implies they were deliberately misleading about what they did. They also explain why they overtightened it.
atom-morgan 9y ago
As a former competitive speedcuber, I basically had to do something similar but I went with a fluorescent orange (and fluorescent green to distinguish from blue) rather than black. At a slow speed it isn't much of an issue but when speedsolving, blue-green and red-orange take just a bit too long to distinguish even for my human eyes.
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