This is so cool! Does the term "ant" here have any real-world implications to the behavior of ants, or is it simply a creative term? Obviously ants are known to

This is so cool! Does the term "ant" here have any real-world implications to the behavior of ants, or is it simply a creative term? Obviously ants are known to build highways, but that's through use of pheromone trails rather than a very simple process of turning, right? But I guess the black/white configuration is a binary representation of a pheromone trail? So, maybe?