computational photography

The term “computational photography,” like the term “A.I.” (artificial intelligence), will be used in years to come to describe a wide range of things.

There’s even a tiny(!) chance that (like the term “A.I.”) the term “computational photography” will sometimes be invoked more for marketing reasons than as an accurate technical description.

Either way, some things that fall under the rubric of “computational photography” will disqualify photos from TTG (see #1606)—

— but other computational technologies applied by smartphones at the recording stage are already allowed by TTG...

. . . and in the future, computational technology could also be used to make photographs more trustworthy (see #2111).

Thus as with many other photography tools, it is impossible to give a blanket “TTG” or “not-TTG” characterization of “computational”-related technology applications in photographs.

The term “art” is similarly neither 100% “TTG” or “not-TTG”; see #2001.