
Windell writes - "How fast are your garden snails? Are they faster when you threaten them with garlic butter? How do they leave dotted lines in their wake? And what are you going to do with the built-in iSight camera on your new Mac? Answer all of these questions at once with Gawker, a cute little GPL'd (free) mac program that makes making time lapse movies a cinch. Watch a 30-second quicktime clip of my garden Snail Race. The video quality suffers a little from variable lighting [stupid moving clouds!] and the tiny lens. Go snails go! " - Link.
Escargot Grand Prix - DIY Time lapse snail races
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to make them all go straight you should lay down lines of salt, i made a maze once of salt lines and put a snail in the middle
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