The bits go round and round

The other day, Sam drew a picture on the computer:

Sam's picture

Then he printed it.

Then he scanned it. (This took several tries, as the OS X image capture program isn’t the most intuitive of applications. And Mr. Sam wanted to watch the scanner work, so on the first attempt he lifted the lid in mid-scan. Oops.)

Once the scan was finished, I said, “Well, Sam, what should we do with it?”

“Let’s print it!” he said.

And then, I suppose, we could scan the printout, etc., etc….