Event Horizon Telescope
The canonical Blind Replication Sprint. The four-team blind imaging protocol, the October 2017 EHT Image Hackathon, the seven-week 2018 sprint, the July 2018 convergence workshop reveal, and the 2019 Bouman credit-attribution episode as a named storytelling failure mode.
The Event Horizon Telescope is the canonical worked example of the Blind Replication Sprint format archetype. The October 2017 EHT Image Hackathon at the Black Hole Initiative — labeled directly on screen as such in Peter Galison's documentary record of the collaboration — established the four-team blind imaging protocol that produced the first image of M87*. The seven-week 2018 sprint that produced the M87* image paired CLEAN-based pipelines for the Americas and Global teams against Regularized Maximum Likelihood pipelines for the East Asia and Cross Atlantic teams, and converged at the July 2018 BHI workshop on a result that agreed across teams to better than 95% pixel-to-pixel correlation. Full case study queued for post-launch publication; the Manifesto principles below cover the structural argument the case will operationalize.
Structural analysis
Pending. The full case study will cover the four-team blind imaging protocol, the institutional-scale prerequisites, convergence as integrity mechanic, the dramaturgy of the convergence event, and the 2019 Bouman credit-attribution episode as the canonical storytelling failure mode of convergence-based work operating outside the collaboration.
What worked
Pending.
What didn't
Pending.