"synthography" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /sɪnˈθɒɡɹəfi/ Forms: synthographies [plural]
Etymology: Blend of synthetic + photography. Coined in 2022 by researcher and artist Elke Reinhuber, as a synthetic analogue to photography, replacing the root phot- (“light”) with synth- (“synthesis”) to denote creation via generative artificial intelligence. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|synthetic|photography}} Blend of synthetic + photography Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} synthography (countable and uncountable, plural synthographies)
  1. (art, digital media) The creation of digital images, particularly photorealistic artwork, using generative artificial intelligence tools via text or multimodal prompts. (instances are called synthographs) Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-synthography-en-noun-gjZDTOwn Categories (other): Art, English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English blends: 66 34 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 75 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 76 24 Topics: art, arts
  2. (art, technology, generalisation) The act or process of utilising text or multimodal prompts to create algorithmically generated art or creative outputs, including text, 2D or 3D imagery, music, video, animation, audiovisual media, software, or videogames. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-synthography-en-noun-kf7jHUYz Categories (other): Art, Technology Topics: art, arts, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, technology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: synthograph, synthographer, synthographic Coordinate_terms: synthiconia (english: static imagery), synthocinema (english: animation and video), synthophony [music, entertainment, lifestyle, audio, electrical-engineering, engineering, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], synthoplastia (3D assets and spatial representations), synthoscriptia (english: text and literature), synthotech (english: software and videogames)

Inflected forms

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