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How the yellow first-down line stays under players

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Painting a digital line on a constantly moving football field covered in 300-pound tackling men is an absurdly miraculous feat of real-time computing. The system requires spatial sensors on every single broadcast camera and a complete mathematical 3D topography of the pitch to dynamically render the color palette so the yellow graphic magically appears to be under the players' cleats.

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