Evolution
Evolution is the process or result of running one or more generations of a pattern. For example, a row of 10 cells evolves into a pentadecathlon.
Reaction
Reaction refers to a specific evolution with some trait. For instance, in a traffic jam reaction, two traffic lights push each other out by 3 cells. Reactions can be classified in many ways, e.g. 2-glider collisions, over-unity reactions and catalytic reactions.
gollark: Also, unable to use search engines somehow.
gollark: I think the nice thing about Linuxen is that once you know some things the rest comes reasonably easily from there; unlike with Windows, where you can do the basic stuff easily but struggle to do complex things.
gollark: Probably mount configs, I think.
gollark: I mean, I think you can muck around with some option somewhere to not require chmod +x (or 755 or whatever), but you probably shouldn't.
gollark: If someone doesn't know the all the arcane lore of Windows, not their fault.
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