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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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