# GOL-006: Fire Wings

A compact ignition opens into recurring wing-like fronts as alternating weighted-neighborhood rules meet enforced rest, finite life, and a directional history clock.

[Open simulation](https://100gol.com/experiments/006) · [Directory](https://100gol.com/experiments)

## What to explore

A compact ignition should expand, contract, break into coherent fronts, and
remain active for hundreds of generations. The hidden directional weighting,
rest counters, finite living duration, and history suppression must remain
reproducible and selectively explainable rather than disappearing behind a
binary renderer.

## Rules, update order and replay

The square Moore lattice alternates `B34/S345678` and `B234578/S04678`. Every
cell permanently repeats one seeded Moore direction, producing a weighted count
from 0 through 9. Living continuation is limited by a counter; a dead position
must complete its minimum rest before birth. Each cell retains eight committed
states, and the selected `1111` history signal may force death when aligned with
the fixed repeated direction on a nine-beat clock. Count nine deliberately falls
through to current state unless the lifecycle limit intervenes. All positions
read frozen state and commit synchronously. Replay requires occupancy,
directions, living/dead counters, histories, generation/phase, configuration,
topology, field, initial mode, and seed/density. Reset reconstructs all layers.

## Reading the simulation

The ordinary field remains dead/alive rather than assigning a color to every
hidden direction or counter. Inspection outlines the selected position and its
repeated neighbor, then reports ordinary and weighted counts, permanent
direction, lifecycle counters, eight-bit history, active/next phase, clock slot,
and whether history suppression will force death. Written state and legend make
the binary palette independent from the causal explanation.

## Reproduce a starting configuration

[Download example JSON](https://100gol.com/api/experiments/006/configuration). Import it using Share & reproduce in the simulation controls. It starts paused at Step zero. Files contain rules and initial conditions, not evolved boards or manual edits. See [format, limitations and automated access](https://100gol.com/agents).