The serial connection will allow for the peripheral to transfer data to the computer and vise versa. Smoothing Averaging pixels with their neighbors. Software Written coded commands that tell the computer what tasks to perform. For example, Word, PhotoShop, Picture Easy, and PhotoDeluxe are software programs. Square Pixels - Rectangular Pixels Point and shoot digital cameras utilize camcorder technology.
Camcorders use rectangular pixels because TV displays are rectangular.
For computers square is better because computer monitors display square pixels. Essentially you lose image data and introduce artifacts with rectangular pixels. Subtractive colors Transparent colors that can be combined to produce a full range of color. Subtractive colors subtract or absorb elements of light to produce other colors. A new floppy disk technology that holds up to 128MB of images and data.