๐Ÿ“ท Photography ยท lighting setups

Pathwalker Setup

Explore lighting setups as a graph with a quantum walk that biases toward the next best step for photographers.

Quantum walkยท graph exploration
Section ยท Quantum

The hook.

full primer โ†’

Lighting setups is laid out as a graph; a quantum walker explores it and lights up the most promising next step for photographers to take.

Why this primitiveQuantum walk is the right primitive here because lighting setups reduces to a graph exploration problem; the kernel returns a result you can drop straight into the UI.

Kernel
a discrete-time quantum walk on a small graph returning a probability distribution over nodes after t steps
Drives the UI as
an animated graph where node opacity reflects walk probability
Appendix A

The mega-prompt.

This prompt is engineered to ship in a single Lovable build. Real Quantinuum Guppy/Selene circuit runs in the Linux sandbox at build time and the results are baked in as JSON. read the build strategy โ†’

~14.4 KB287 lines1 msg ยท ~5 credits
Open in Lovable โ†—
Appendix B

Market sizing.

TAM
$20.0B
the photo software market (~$2.4B) and >15M pro photographers.
SAM
$1.0B
the 5% of that market actively buying lighting setups-adjacent software.
SOM
$40M
a realistic 4% capture of the serviceable slice in years 1โ€“3 via the hackathon launch and creator-led distribution.

Indicative figures for hackathon pitches โ€” refine with your own research before raising.

See also

Adjacent entries.