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Marching ants

The marching ants effect is an animation technique often found in selection tools of computer graphics programs. It helps the user to quickly distinguish an image selection border from the surrounding content by animating the border as a dotted or dashed line, where the segments appear to move in parallel along the border. The consistent movement of the…

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Marching ants

Nodes15
Edges14
Triples10
Avg. degree1.87
Density0.133333
Components1

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Marching ants

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related to Origin · 9
Marching ants → An, Apple Lisa, Atkinson, Bill Atkinson, California, Hamm's Beer, He, Los Gatos, Rod Perkins
related to External links · 1
Marching ants → Fun

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Marching antsrelated to External linksFun0.60section
Marching antsrelated to OriginBill Atkinson0.60section
Marching antsrelated to OriginLos Gatos0.60section
Marching antsrelated to OriginCalifornia0.60section
Marching antsrelated to OriginAn0.60section
Marching antsrelated to OriginHamm's Beer0.60section
Marching antsrelated to OriginAtkinson0.60section
Marching antsrelated to OriginHe0.60section
Marching antsrelated to OriginRod Perkins0.60section
Marching antsrelated to OriginApple Lisa0.60section

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