antGen

antGen is a utility object designed for generating Langton's Ant rules compatible with the EvolveCode turmite simulator. It provides tools to create grid-based color patterns, convert images to grid colors, and generate turmite JSON rule sets for simulating Langton’s Ant paths.

Features

• Initialize and manage a toroidal (looping) grid.
• Set colors and fill areas on the grid.
• Convert images or hex/RGB colors to the closest predefined grid colors.
• Generate JSON state machines describing ant movement rules.
• Handle toroidal shortest path calculations.
• Compatible with EvolveCode turmite simulator rules format.
• Possible to turn off looping

Installation

npm install langton-ant-rule-gen

Common js

const antGen = require('langton-ant-rule-gen');

ESM

import antGen from 'langton-ant-rule-gen';