https://github.com/catseye/circute

A cellular automaton that simulates NAND gates
https://github.com/catseye/circute

alpaca cellular-automaton circuit-simulator nand wireworld

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A cellular automaton that simulates NAND gates

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/catseye/circute
• Owner: catseye
• License: other
• Created: 2012-06-23T21:48:54.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-12-12T17:24:31.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-12T22:20:39.961Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: alpaca, cellular-automaton, circuit-simulator, nand, wireworld
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://catseye.tc/node/Circute
• Size: 43.9 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
The Circute Cellular Automaton

==============================

*Note: parts of this readme were cribbed from the esolangs.org

[wiki entry for Circute](http://esolangs.org/wiki/Circute), which is in the

public domain.*

**Circute** is a two-dimensional five-state cellular automaton.  It was

designed by Chris Pressey in 2005 as a test of the so-called "wire-crossing

problem".  It is similar in some respects to WireWorld, but attempts to act

more like an actual digital electronic circuit, providing as its basic

mechanism the only logic gate you ever really need, the NAND gate.

Syntax

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*   ` ` - blank. Never changes.

*   `=` - wire. Sparks pass through.

*   `-` - tail. Used to make sparks act more like snakes.

*   `#` - spark. These spread across wires.

*   `N` - NAND gate. Never changes itself, but if there's a free wire

          directly along the left or the right, send a message along any

          wire directly above or below. 

Implementation

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Circute has a simple description written in ALPACA.  This distribution

contains both that description, and a Perl script compiled from it which

animates the cellular automaton.