Ladder

Bundle — the ladder

2 distinct arguments against one idea, from the one that introduces it to the one that assumes the rest.
  1. view 1view 6the scene, in plan — recovered points and cameras over the true onesreprojection 0.332 px · track 2.0e-3264 observations, 168 parameters

    The track and the scene together

    Six photographs go in and one hundred and sixty-eight numbers come out — every camera's position and orientation and every point's place in space, solved for at once. Nothing in the solve was ever told where a camera or a point was.

    rung 1 · manyviews
  2. -10-50012345iterationreprojection error (px, log scale)exact marksread to 1 px4.67 px → 0.3324 px in 5 iterationsexact marks reach 1.3e-11 px

    Where the adjustment stops

    Given exact marks the reprojection error falls to a hundredth of a billionth of a pixel, which is arithmetic. Given the same marks read to a whole pixel it falls to a third of a pixel and stays there, and a solver that reached zero on those would be fitting the rounding.

    rung 2 · manyviews

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