>>3199482>are you really this stupidNo, you're just assuming I am because you're too dumb to realize I was speaking metaphorically. I have a degree in computer science; I know that it's not *literally* simulating a sensor and not *literally* simulating photons (except in the case of ray tracing, which usually isn't how they do it for games since it's pretty computationally complex).
I meant it in the same way someone would say a video game character has "simulated injuries". We all know that the computer isn't running a complex simulation of a human body. It's just decrementing a variable named 'health' somewhere.
The point I'm trying to make is that all of the fundamental things that make photography what it is--composition, lighting, timing, framing, etc--carry over to sufficiently well-developed video game screenshot modes.
You're all arguing that "photography" means "light writing" and since there's not literally light being literally written with, it can't be photography. It's a dumb semantic argument. That thing you carry around your neck and take pictures with isn't a room, but I bet you still call it a camera, right?
Attached is another example of a thing not made using light that everyone but the absolute most pedantic would call a photograph.
