The Science Dictionary definition you link to requires that the output be a physical property, but that\'s true of the output of any transducer, analog or digital (note that film would be a transducer in this case as a transducer simply converts a measurement of one physical property to another physical property).
Just to clarify, analog requires that the medium of storage (what you are referring to as the \'transducer\') is physical and directly analogous to the original (ie latent image) as opposed to just a mathematical reconstruction that is not dependent upon the medium of storage to work. This is the inherent quality, along with the continuous nature aspect, that defines an analog medium.
The Science Dictionary definition you link to requires that the output be a physical property, but that\'s true of the output of any transducer, analog or digital (note that film would be a transducer in this case as a transducer simply converts a measurement of one physical property to another physical property).
Just to clarify, analog requires that the medium of storage (what you are referring to as the \'transducer\') is physical and directly analogous to the original as opposed to just a mathematical reconstruction that is not dependent upon the medium of storage to work. This is the inherent quality, along with the continuous nature aspect, that defines an analog medium.
Dec 28, 2010 at 05:25 PM
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