I've not yet read to the end so apologies if this idea is covered already, but a ctrl+F for "colour" (and "color") yields nothing so I'll comment away:
> "If you’re thinking ahead you’ll realise that the maximum number of bees they could therefore simultaneously study was 2048. That’s about 1/25th of a very strong colony at the peak of the season, or the number of bees covering both sides of a two-thirds full frame of sealed brood."
For a system you're total controlling (in that they created their own QR-inspired format based on the size that can fit on a bee), would it not be simple to use colours to expand the range?
For example just having red+white codes as well as black+white ones you double from 2048 to 4096 bees you can label. Or is there some issue that bees wouldn't like other colours, or some other problem I'm not foreseeing?
And I don't know how far it could extend, but I guess even 25 shades of various colours could be different enough from each other for the camera scanning them to differentiate?
> "If you’re thinking ahead you’ll realise that the maximum number of bees they could therefore simultaneously study was 2048. That’s about 1/25th of a very strong colony at the peak of the season, or the number of bees covering both sides of a two-thirds full frame of sealed brood."
For a system you're total controlling (in that they created their own QR-inspired format based on the size that can fit on a bee), would it not be simple to use colours to expand the range?
For example just having red+white codes as well as black+white ones you double from 2048 to 4096 bees you can label. Or is there some issue that bees wouldn't like other colours, or some other problem I'm not foreseeing?
And I don't know how far it could extend, but I guess even 25 shades of various colours could be different enough from each other for the camera scanning them to differentiate?