Chapter 22. Scanners
The scanner is a science-fiction aficionado's dream, a device that shifts between dimensions. It takes three-dimensional objects—your artwork, pages from books and magazines, even small objects such as coins—and reduces them to two-dimensional images by looking at them one dimension at a time. Without a trace of the alien technology or the supernatural, the scanner converts images you see in the real world and hold in your hand into the flatland of graphics, ready to adorn your documents or edit into arresting artwork.
The essence of any scanner is elementary. As you would expect, it scans. That is, it uses a long array of light sensors to scan across whatever you put into its range of sight. Each light sensor detects the ...
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