Alright, this might be considered a follow-up to Spiraling Death: not a boustrophedon. in a way, since it has a similar idea, but this is a whole new story. Besides having this nice egg-shape (in a square font it would be a circle though), it produces some interesting real time calculated output. No rocket-science calcs, but anyway... if it wasn't calculated, it would probably look more even. :)

I would also like to thank domm for teaching me one of the tricks I use.

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Important(?) notes:

• If you are on Windows (or a Mac?), you must save the file with UNIX line endings or it will not work. Most text editors provide this capability, or something like this node might help.
• The right side must be space padded so all lines are equally long (as long as the longest ones in the middle). No longer lines either. I could just copy from the preview, save and run, so this might not be an issue, but I don't know if you D/L code instead. :)
• After some discussion with sm3g we concluded that the script should be run with perl program-name - this is how I run my programs, and due to this failing it will work better that way. It is my testing, not perl. :) Thank you!
• Update: sm3g apparently had to make some minor changes to get this to work on his? her? platform, also try that advice if something seems wrong. :) Thanks for the help! The script is a little picky...
• If you can read all of the code without deparsing in any way, you really, really scare me :)

Any comments would be very appreciated, if you have them. :) And solutions too, if anyone feels up to it?

Have fun!

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