Optimizing a Shortest Walk Animation

Hello
your definitions is not very good, I had to kill the process.
Instead of anemone it could be better you have a slider, say it is for the time. It will control the growth. I just did it here in order to make a gif.

The only thing to do is to use the animate command of the slider to make images.

The other trick you could use is to not draw radiuses that are less than a threshold.