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How Bill Atkinson got the idea for the "marching ants" effect
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nickb
on Sept 15, 2007
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cstejerean
on Sept 16, 2007
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This is similar to how I get the most creative ideas for solving a problem. As a friend of mine once said sometimes you have to go out and do unrelated things to seed your random number generator.
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