local mon = peripheral.find("monitor") local steps = 1 local waittime = 1 local mycolors = { colors.red, colors.green, colors.blue, colors.white} local pattern = {} for x = 1,61 do pattern[x] = {} for y= 1,61 do pattern[x][y] = 4 end end function draw() for y = 1,61 do mon.setCursorPos(1,y) for x = 1,61 do mon.setBackgroundColor(mycolors[pattern[x][y]]) mon.write(" ") end end end function progress() for x = 1,61 do for y = 1,61 do if(pattern[x][y]==2) then pattern[x][y]=3 else pattern[x][y]=4 end end end for x = 1,61 do for y = 1,61 do sides = 0 if(pattern[x][y]==4) then if(1<x and 1<y ) then if(pattern[x-1][y-1]==3) then sides=sides+1 end end if( 1<y ) then if(pattern[x ][y-1]==3) then sides=sides+1 end end if(x<61 and 1<y ) then if(pattern[x+1][y-1]==3) then sides=sides+1 end end if(1<x ) then if(pattern[x-1][y ]==3) then sides=sdies+1 end end if(x<61 ) then if(pattern[x+1][y ]==3) then sides=sides+1 end end if(1<x and y<61) then if(pattern[x-1][y+1]==3) then sides=sides+1 end end if( y<61) then if(pattern[x ][y+1]==3) then sides=sides+1 end end if(x<61 and y<61) then if(pattern[x+1][y+1]==3) then sides=sides+1 end end end if (sides!=0) then pattern[x][y]=(sides%2)+1 end end end end function mainloop() while true do draw() for i = 1,steps do progress() end os.sleep(waittime) end end pattern[16][16] = 1 mainloop()
this is the error message:
bios.lua:26: [string "mine.lua"]:42: ')' expected
if it wasn't obvious, the program is supposed to start with a dot then put new dots in any place that has odd amount of dots around it and remove old dots then repeat.