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Re:Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain... by addaon on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @10:43AM (#41637020)
How is scanning a QR code photography? Photography is "writing with light"; the key property is that of making a lasting record of a transient handful of photons. When scanning a QR code, the imaging is incidental, but more importantly no record of the "light" is made. If scanning a QR code is photography, so is sitting on the porch reading a book...
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Re:Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain... by throwaway290 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @10:58AM (#41637215)
You can't scan a QR code without photography. But the QR code app won't just write "oh we need the camera to capture some photons".
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Re:Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain... by addaon on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @11:04AM (#41637312)
By what definition of photography is this true?

Is photometry photography now? Is the barcode reader at my supermarket performing photography? The encoder on my scroll wheel? My solar roof?

Cameras can be used for many things other than photography. Many other things than cameras can be used for photography. The two are not synonymous.

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Re:Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain... by throwaway290 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @11:35AM (#41637681)
If it is a camera then all it does is photography. If you call it a camera in your encoder and solar roof then yes sure.

You are trying to bend definitions

> Cameras can be used for many things other than photography

Like plug a hole with it or hammer a nail?

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Re:Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain... by addaon on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @12:07PM (#41638054)
Like photometry, and spectroscopy, and videography, and camera obscura, and a hundred other things. A camera is a tool for redirecting photons to create an image of a scene on a 2D plane. So many more things than just creating durable images by recording the spatial distribution of light on a plane (photography) are possible with such a tool.
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Re:Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain... by throwaway290 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @01:11AM (#41643901)
> A camera is a tool for redirecting photons to create an image of a scene on a 2D plane.

This is photography. You are thinking about art but photography also means technical process.

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