LifeWiki talk:Did you know/160

For those who are curious, a candidate model can be found at this post with a custom ruletable. GUYTU6J (talk) 14:55, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

The original suggestion from this post seems to be more of a concept and less of a practice. Is the rule table demonstration above enough, or it is mandatory to have the keyword "temporary cubic growth" link to an explicit Game of Life construction? GUYTU6J (talk) 01:35, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

• Might be a valid solution to create Temporary cubic growth and put examples there (and link to it from LifeWiki:Did you know/160), now that there is an observable discussion of it in several places? Confocal (talk) 02:05, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

I am not inclined to creating a new article to explain this. Instead I may simply have a section named "Growth rates beyond quadratic" in the infinite growth article, where the first paragraph starts with "Constrained by the 2-dimensional square grid and the range-1 Moore neighbourhood, population a pattern cannot grow infinitely at a rate asymptotically higher than quadratic", and the second paragraph starts with "That said, patterns temporarily exhibiting higher-than-quadratic population growth rates can be constructed, for instance a cubic growth." GUYTU6J (talk) 02:41, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

• That's another possibility - although in my own experience, long articles attempting to cover multiple things frequently fail to give a clear explanation for either of the things. Especially when there are examples to be shown and discussions that can be linked, it seems better to have a dedicated relatively short article that explains its only subject (providing examples and references as appropriate) -- and does nothing too substantial apart from that. For what it's worth, Infinite growth may be an example of a page that attempts to cover multiple things at once; I have a gut feeling that it should be several different pages instead. Confocal (talk) 03:24, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Well, yeah, I see how that article needs splitting, especially the parts about linear growth and quadratic growth. But my proposed section can be integrated in the existing "growth rates" section as an analysis of details, so it is not article-worthy. ... Can I move on to complete this task? GUYTU6J (talk) 03:47, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Shouldn't this DYK link be changed to Superlinear growth page? Book (talk) 18:42, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Change request

I propose the following change:

... that it is possible to construct patterns that [[Temporary cubic growth|''temporarily'' exhibit cubic growth]]?

The link becomes a redirect to an appropriate section of an article (which in the future may become a separate article if/when there are enough interesting examples for that). Confocal (talk) 00:11, 15 August 2022 (UTC)