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This work was supported in part by the Fund for Promotion of Research at the Technion, Haifa, Israel.
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Bruckstein, A.M. Why the ant trails look so straight and nice. The Mathematical Intelligencer 15, 59–62 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024195
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