A scripting language for describing cellular automatas
Element - a type of cell that can interract with the world
To define an element, keyword element is used.
Default syntax is shown below:
element ELEMENTNAME {
color #000000;
rules {
...
}
}
Color can be any value of type #RRGGBB
To define rules, you use conditional and actional statements.
Conditions are defined with keywords if and ifnot followed by a condition:
if (NUMBER) TYPE at DIRECTION {...}
NUMBER can be an integer or an inclusive range ([a..b]).
TYPE is the type of cell you check for.
DIRECTION can be an integer for specific neighbors cells or a built-in DIR constant
Conditional statements check if there are NUMBER of TYPE type cells at neighbor cells mapped by DIR.
Conditional statement can be followed by a one-line instruction or by another conditional statement inside of a {block}.
Action statements are result of conditional statements.
Currently the only actional statement is =>:
=> TYPE
This statement turns a cell into TYPE type cell.
The statement can be defined outside a conditional instruction:
rules {
=> TYPE
}
The DIR constant defines which neighbor cells are being checked in a conditional statement.
DIR can take values of UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT (DIR.UP) and various combinations of those for corner neighbor cells (DIR.UPLEFT).
Also DIR takes values of CROSS, X (DIR.CROSS) for checking only corner neighbor cells and PLUS (DIR.PLUS) for checking all non-corner neighbor cells.
For checking all the cells aroung use DIR.ALL or DIR.ANY.