def read_points3d_binary(path_to_model_file):
    """
    see: src/base/reconstruction.cc
        void Reconstruction::ReadPoints3DBinary(const std::string& path)
        void Reconstruction::WritePoints3DBinary(const std::string& path)
    """
    points3D = {}
    with open(path_to_model_file, "rb") as fid:
        num_points = read_next_bytes(fid, 8, "Q")[0]
        for point_line_index in range(num_points):
            binary_point_line_properties = read_next_bytes(
                fid, num_bytes=43, format_char_sequence="QdddBBBd")
            point3D_id = binary_point_line_properties[0]
            xyz = np.array(binary_point_line_properties[1:4])
            rgb = np.array(binary_point_line_properties[4:7])
            error = np.array(binary_point_line_properties[7])
            track_length = read_next_bytes(
                fid, num_bytes=8, format_char_sequence="Q")[0]
            track_elems = read_next_bytes(
                fid, num_bytes=8*track_length,
                format_char_sequence="ii"*track_length)
            image_ids = np.array(tuple(map(int, track_elems[0::2])))
            point2D_idxs = np.array(tuple(map(int, track_elems[1::2])))
            points3D[point3D_id] = Point3D(
                id=point3D_id, xyz=xyz, rgb=rgb,
                error=error, image_ids=image_ids,
                point2D_idxs=point2D_idxs)
    return points3D

    see: src/base/reconstruction.cc
        void Reconstruction::ReadPoints3DBinary(const std::string& path)
        void Reconstruction::WritePoints3DBinary(const std::string& path)
    
instant-nsr-pl/datasets/colmap_utils.py