TPS Design Philosophy

The Three Point System did not emerge from a search for a camera alignment technique.

It emerged from repeated observation of production failures.

The guiding assumption is that every problem contains information about its own solution.

Rather than beginning with a desired solution and searching for applications, TPS begins with persistent production problems and attempts to identify the underlying constraints creating those problems.

In this view,

camera alignment is not the problem.

Geometry is not the problem.

The deeper problem is preserving useful spatial relationships within a production system that is simultaneously rigid enough to support repeatability and flexible enough to support creative adaptation.

The triangle is not important because it is a triangle.

The triangle is important because it preserves relationships.

TPS therefore treats measurement not as an end in itself but as a mechanism for preserving information while the production continues to evolve.

The solution emerges from the problem

The production teaches the system required to support it.