Mycelium
Mycelium is an image-based esoteric programming language designed by Lode Vandevenne in 2005. The commands are read from a png image. There is some freedom in the colors you can give a pixel to get a certain command, so it's possible to create an image out of commands or encode the commands in a photo.
Mycelium has both memory and a stack. Stack and Memory are of arbitrary size and consist out of signed integers of at least 32 bits. There is also a gosub stack used to remember where to return to. It remembers the location and direction of the instruction pointer.
Commands
Every command is an RGB pixel with 8 bit per color channel. R % 16 (R modulo 16) selects the command or group of commands, G and B select the behaviour, the actual command or data. For some commands, G and B are unused and may be anything.
- IP = Instruction Pointer (x, y, direction)
- MP = Memory Pointer
- *MP = Memory value the MP is pointing at
| R % 16 | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | NOP |
| 1 | Set IP direction (B % 4 selects direction: e, s, w, n) |
| 2 | Jump over next 256 * G + B pixels |
| 3 | If popped value is 0, jump over next 256 * G + B pixels |
| 4 | Translocation command (B % 8 selects: goto, gosub, return, relative goto, relative gosub) |
| 5 | Memory command (B % 8 selects: set *MP, set *MP, get MP, set MP, MP++, MP--) |
| 6 | Set code pixel color channel (self modifying) |
| 7 | Get code pixel color channel |
| 8 | Push constant: 256 * G + B. |
| 9 | Push two constants: G and B |
| 10 | Stack commands (B % 4 selects: pop, dup, swap, dup2) |
| 11 | Math commands (B % 32 selects: +, -, *, /, %, |, &, ^, ~, >>, <<, ==, !=, >, <, >=, <=, &&, ||, !)
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| 12 | I/O commands (B % 4 selects: print char, get char, print integer) |
Other values result in undefined behavior.