I'm curious if the asymmetry has anything to do with the "computational" component, e.g. in solving a system of equations (like estimating distance across multi

I'm curious if the asymmetry has anything to do with the "computational" component, e.g. in solving a system of equations (like estimating distance across multiple sensors), it's best to have an independent basis. If the sensors were arranged in a perfect grid pattern, then comparing some sets of sensors (i.e. colinear ones) wouldn't give you as much data as others? ...or perhaps I'm letting my understanding of computer vision/geometry/linear algebra run away from me...