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How Bill Atkinson got the idea for the "marching ants" effect (folklore.org)
8 points by nickb on Sept 15, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


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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