Split in chunks - all chunks have all the photos in?

[hanparker]

I have a chunk with 840 photos in. The photos all have x,y,z info and run along a road so you'd think they should split nicely. I run the "Split In Chunks" from the wiki repository and click the custom menu item. I go with the default  2 x 2 square and I get 4 new chunks:  chunk 1\1 through to chunk 2\2 - but they all have the original 840 photos in.

What am I missing?

[James]

The script just duplicates the current chunk and modifies it's bounding box each time. It doesn't check which photos contribute to the scene within each chunk, as they could easily be outside the bounding box, looking in.

The idea of the script is to limit the area which is processed during dense cloud and mesh generation.

[hanparker]

Ah! Clever. Thank you.

[tkwasnitschka]

How could this script be modified to test for cameras that do not contribute to the region of the newly created chunk, and then delete those? My project has 32.000 images and thus I have a natural interest to use split chunks e.g. to check for matches before I set control points, and merge back for each next step.