# GOL-014: Second Thought: Radius Two

The forecast widens to every cell in the surrounding 5 × 5 area: sharp contraction can protect a scheduled death, but projected crowding above an absolute 24-cell threshold forces death.

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## What to explore

The model should isolate neighborhood scale and precedence without changing the
ordinary Life neighborhood. Both contraction protection and crowding death must
remain visibly active over long runs, while prediction stays finite,
nonrecursive, deterministic, and explainable from one frozen proposal board.

## Rules, update order and replay

Pass one computes ordinary configurable Life from the frozen board using only
the immediate eight-cell Moore count. Pass two counts current and ordinary-
projected occupancy across all 24 noncentral positions in the focal cell's 5 × 5
area: eight first-ring plus sixteen outer-ring positions. If projected population
is above the crowding threshold, the focal position must be dead, whether it was
an ordinary survivor, birth, or already scheduled death. Otherwise, an ordinary
scheduled death is protected only when projected loss is strictly greater than
contraction tolerance. Equality is allowed. Projected positions never include
their own future protections or charges. Pass three commits synchronously.
Replay requires occupancy, ordinary/protection/charge evidence, generation,
configuration, topology, profile, and start. Reset/Clear/manual edits clear
transient evidence.

## Reading the simulation

The renderer distinguishes established life, accepted births, ordinary deaths,
contraction-protected deaths, and crowding death charges. Inspection outlines all
24 forecast subjects by projected occupancy and uses dashed outlines for the
sixteen-cell outer ring. Written state separately reports the ordinary count,
current/projected 24-cell populations, signed delta, crowding status,
surviving protection status, and final result. Range labels, legend, telemetry,
and inspector text prevent color-only or precedence-ambiguous explanation.

## Reproduce a starting configuration

[Download example JSON](https://100gol.com/api/experiments/014/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).