Augmentation orbits do not substitute for multiple photographs

Four random resized crops per Visual Genome image, segmented
independently with their fields averaged, leave the correlation at
0.6559. Closed-world re-renders resample layout, which is nuisance by
construction, so averaging removes modality-private variation; random
crops perturb framing that self-supervised patch features already
absorb, leaving nothing to cancel.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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 states, echoing the earlier finding that what the model layer shares is
 the mixed state rather than the isolated encoding.
 
+## Augmentation orbits are not a substitute for multiple photographs
+
+The closed world made two-sided multi-view observation a protocol
+requirement, and Visual Genome carries one photograph per scene, so the
+orbit was synthesised: four random resized crops per image, segmented
+independently, their fields averaged. The correlation moves from 0.6559
+to 0.6559 -- no gain at four views.
+
+The mechanism is visible in what each orbit cancels. Re-renders in the
+closed world resample layout, which is nuisance by construction, so
+averaging over them removes exactly the modality-private variation.
+Random crops perturb framing, and self-supervised patch features are
+already close to invariant under it, so the average has nothing to
+cancel. Multi-view observation, where it matters, means separate
+photographs of the same scene rather than transformations of one.
+
 ## Verdict
 
 The go/no-go statistic stands at 0.656 against the 0.9 that polynomial