"That's right!" Good job, Harrowheart, she's very impressed with you now. Enjoy this genuine limited-edition grin. "That's pretty much exactly how it works. And then I can tell it to send those memories to another machine that turns the lights into colors and prints the picture on paper."

That is close enough to how things work, anyway. "There's a saying, where I'm from, that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I suppose the reverse is also true. It's all ways of manipulating energy."