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Re:Help this man decipher his cool creative code. by moondowner on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @08:32AM (#4255392)
Looks like some sort of a fractal generator, and by looking at the source, it uses Fisher-Yates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle

Also this link is referenced in the code:

http://sedition.com/perl/javascript-fy.html

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Re:Help this man decipher his cool creative code. by im3w1l on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @10:31AM (#4255785)
Look were fisher-yates is used. It is only used if you press a certain key, otherwise not at all.
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