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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by cfiggers on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:11PM (#46818197)
Another analogy that kinda fits in with what you're saying is the post-processing on smartphone "photos."

At what point does the processing become so strong that it's less a photograph and more a work of computational impressionism?

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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by direwolf20 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:35PM (#46819550)
At the point where Samsung detects a photo of a white circle while the phone is pointing upwards and substitutes a high resolution picture of the moon.

This actually happened.

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