Ants in a Scanner

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Filmmaker François Vautier put an ant colony inside a scanner and took a picture once a week every week for five years. This time-lapse video shows the colony gradually filling and eroding the machine.

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I was looking forward to an actual time lapse showing what happened, not a NIN video.

If there wasn't the description of ants and a scanner, I would have had no idea what was happening.

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Looking at some of the light-effects and those changing numbers, it's not even an actual clean picture sequence- it's been tricked. So no.

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Interesting take on the 'long view' of nature's art.

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Why bother? That something can be done is no good reason for doing it.

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