how to implement a NetLogo-style diffuse in Mesa

[NickleDave]

Hi,

I'm working with some NetLogo models that use the command diffuse:
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/dict/diffuse.html

Are there any existing mesa implementations of this command?
I did a search and didn't find anything.

Now that I actually read their docs, it looks like this is basically a method you execute at the Model level that tells a bunch of Agents to update each other:

Tells each patch to give equal shares of (number * 100) percent of the value of patch-variable to its eight neighboring patches. number should be between 0 and 1.

I can definitely try implementing something like that, but thought I'd ask here too.

[aiwhoo]

Ironically, alot of mesa users are coming from netlogo. It may be good to have a Netlogo equivalent dictionary for MESA. I am searching for an equivalent import-drawing function.