Filling A Room With Air

Hello all,

So, I was wondering how I might go about doing something. What I would like to do, ultimately, is create an atmospherics type system for a spaceship, which includes keeping track of how much air there is in any given room.

How would you go about doing this? If there is a hull breach, then obviously the air would get sucked out of the room. But how about pumping air back into it (assuming there are appropriate pipe connections)?

What makes it a bit more complicated is the fact that if a door to a room is open to, say, a hallway, and a hull breach occurs inside the room, it should **** all of the air out of the room AND hallway, but if the door is sealed, then only the hallway should re-pressurize.

Any tips on how to go about such a system would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton

Your life for the next few months will revolve around celluar automata.

(Unless Yann shows up and gives an impossibly amazing example)

looks like flood fill to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill

The Flood Fill looks more accurate, thanks for that link :)

Not sure a flood fill would completely satisfy what you want. But what do I know ;)

I think it would work best in so far as it serves its ultimate function, which is to regulate o2 or other gasses in confined/non-confined spaces, and seems a hell of a lot easier to come up with some way to implement it as well :) Thank you for the suggestions!