Like diffuse, but only diffuses to the four neighboring patches (to the north, south, east, and west), not to the diagonal neighbors.
diffuse4 chemical 0.5 ;; each patch diffuses 50% of its variable ;; chemical to its neighboring 4 patches. Thus, ;; each patch gets 1/4 of 50% of the chemical ;; from each neighboring patch.)
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