Re: [photo-3d] Re: CGI

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Peter Davis writes:

> Does this mean if a photograph is printed in a book or magazine, 
> it is no longer a photograph?  Because almost all photographs are
> printed by first being digitally scanned.  And photographs taken with
> a digital camera are not photographs?

If it has been digitized it is a digital image.

> I think the distinction is between computer *generated* imagery (ie,
> imagery where individual pixel values are computed by calculating
> lighting and reflections, or some other algorithsm) and *captured*
> imagery, where real-world scenes are recorded with a film or digital
> camera.

Digital photography and computer generated imagery are two different 
things, but both are digital.

That's all for now,

David W. Kesner
Boise, Idaho, USA
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