Workflow Patterns
CONTEXT
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This section contains reusable workflow logic. Each pattern describes a method you can adapt across many cases.
Pattern vs Playbook​
- Workflow Pattern: A reusable method sequence (for example, geometric reconstruction from visual evidence).
- Playbook: A goal-driven application that combines one or more patterns with specific tools and constraints (for example, situated testimony).
If your question is "how do I execute this method," start here. If your question is "how do I deliver this specific investigative outcome," start in Playbooks.
Current Core Patterns​
- Geometric Reconstruction: Analyze source evidence, decompose the scene into actionable assets, branch into object and environmental reconstruction, then merge and validate.
- Object Reconstruction: Reconstruct and dimension key objects from references, measurements, or camera-constrained views.
Route Map: Image-Based Reconstruction​
Use this route when your primary source is photos or video.
- Ingestion and conditioning: Create protected source archives, extract frames when needed, and curate usable inputs. See Ingestion & Processing.
- Decomposition and strategy: Inventory assets and choose feasible reconstruction methods based on source quality and density.
- Object reconstruction branch: Rebuild key objects with measurement and camera-constrained methods. See Object Reconstruction.
- Environmental reconstruction branch: Build geospatial and contextual scene foundations. See Environmental Reconstruction.
- Synthesis and validation: Merge both branches, then verify scale, projection alignment, and assumptions. See Synthesis & Validation.
Scope Note​
SfM is one important stage, not the entire pipeline. In this knowledge base, the full process is treated as an image-based reconstruction workflow with branching outputs.