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Gist c7122eee6247b95dba09

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Created on Mar 27, 2016

This example generates a continuously evolving abstract animation by drawing Voronoi polygons in alternating black and white. It shows a recursive process where each polygon’s edges are traced with short, sequential line segments that slowly shrink the polygon’s boundary, creating a spiral-like contraction. The animation uses D3’s `d3.geom.voronoi()` with a clip extent to create the polygons from random points, and then employs Canvas 2D API calls like `beginPath`, `lineTo`, and `stroke` to draw each step. A queue (`queue.js`) schedules the drawing of each polygon, and the code alternates stroke colors (`#000` and `#fff`) after each full pass, repeating indefinitely.

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