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: It's compiled *to bytecode*.

gollark: Like the osmarks.tk firefox crasher (I think that got patched).

gollark: Yes, that is true for all pages.

gollark: γρεεκ ρεαδερς ἀρε θε κοολεστ.

gollark: λυρικλυ ἰσ δυμβ.

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