Hi,

I started POVing again, and since I'm in a cellular automata period, I 
implemented Conway's Game of Life in POVRay's preprocessing language, 
which gives a kind of history of the 2D world :)

Everything works fine, the only problem is that I don't want to define 
the initial state of the world in the script. Imagine the quantities of 
lines like :
#declare world[5][5] = 1;
#declare world[5][6] = 1;
... etc :/
So, for now I initialise it randomly (the attached picture is with the 
seed 1789 iirc).

Do you know if I could for example read the pixel values of a monochrome 
picture which would describe the initial state of the world ? A nice 
thing would be to have access to a picture like if it was an array, like 
<file>[1][56], which would be an rgb vector. That would be nice wouldn't 
it ?

Anyway, here's a picture of a 30x30 world, with 50 steps (you can see a
characteristic oscillator on the right) :

(ok, the environment could be improved a bit)

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