https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-pixel-3-camera-rewrites-photo-rules-with-nifty-new-tricks/ > It's all possible because of a field called computational photography, a term invented in 2004 by Google distinguished engineer Marc Levoy while he was at Stanford, before he moved full-time to Google Research. Long gone are the days when photography was all about glass lenses and film chemistry. Fast receding are first-generation digital cameras that closely mirror the analog approach. > Now our cameras rely as much on computers as optics. And what we've seen so far is only the beginning.