Coloring parts is now illegal?

[anon4126930]

@Gigahertz.t

Please also do your research. The GDC in High Stakes banned painting/anodizing vex parts in mainland China only because manufacturers were making illegal c-channels using other metals/alloys and painted them to mask the contraband from inspectors. I can’t speak to how many teams were doing this in China, or how it provided such an overwhelming advantage that your c-channels are a teensy bit stronger, but the GDC has decided to just punish everyone for it now.

After doing more research

wang2016iros.pdf

The false positive rate of apriltag detection can be as low as 0.000044%

Even though I thought that the reasoning for no recoloring of VEX parting being Apriltag detection earlier, it seems like the systems in place are so robust for the Apriltag software.

Therefore, I believe you are correct that the most likely reason is because of teams abusing the coloring rule to hide illegal/stronger 3rd party metal components.