ABSTRACT
Beholder is a virtual reality artwork that allows neurotypical people to experience how someone on the autism spectrum perceives the world. Virtual reality is just one of many new artistic avenues opened up by computational photography. Learning about computational photography does not require one to become a mathematician or a computer programmer. High dynamic range imaging is a prime example of how computation can improve image quality—in this case, the image’s dynamic range. Improving dynamic range is not a novel concept; even nineteenth-century photographers experimented with dynamic range in the darkroom. Back at the computer, Photoshop or Lightroom can then put these bracketed exposures together through a computational process, combining then into a single image with a much-enhanced dynamic range that shows details in all levels of the image’s grayscale.
