User blog:RobinCarr/A Complete History of The DinoFusion Cycles 2

This blog is intended as an archive containing the complete history of all the Cycles of DinoFusion, going way back to that remote time when the Fusion Lab first appeared in our villages. Each Cycle of DinoFusion will be assigned a distinct named based solely on the unique Substitutions which heralded its Dawning.

The present cycle has only one Substitution, in which the Bambiraptor, the prior Tier 3 [Air] Biome dino, was made Inactive and, the new Nemicolopterus was substituted for it. Provided no additional Substitutions are made during this cycle, its full official name will be the Nemicolopterus Cycle, or sometimes the Age of the Nemicolopterus. This cycle appears to have been triggered by the Dino Gods very close to Midnight GMT on Friday August 17th. It's arrival was first reported by villager TinyCharlesR whose fusion of two >>>>>> resulted in the first reported Nemicolopterus Egg. Since then, numerous magic dino-birds have been fused, all agreeing with the predicted DinoFusion formulas.

This reconstruction is an application of the methods of Data Fusion, relying solely on a Decision Engine consisting of a suite of informed Binomial Hypotheses. As the data points accumulate in any window of time, the weaker hypotheses are gradually eliminated, until we are left with only one or two viable hypotheses. At this stage an accept or reject decison is made, and the Decision Engine is moved to another time window, inside another DinoFusion Cycle.

What is remarkable, is that the entire time history of the Fusion Cycles, can be reconstructed using only the known Active Dinos in the original SpinoSaurus Cycle, and applying to that promordial list, the substitutions composing the cycle names. In effect the names are the substitutions needed to convert a prior Activation List into the next list. In addition to this preferred forward naming convention, there is a backwards convention, which requires considerably less work to convert a current Fusion Cycle backwards to cycles that have expired in the recent past. And finally, there is a third naming convention that allows both forward and backward cycle shifts. In this third convention, the most recent cycle is named the '''Bambiraptor to Nemicolopterus Cycle. '''

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The Most Recent Cycle: The Nemicolopterus Cycle

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The Prior Cycle: The Minmi Cycle

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The Prior Cycle: The Sloth Cycle

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The Earliest Cycle: The SpinoSaurus Cycle

The very first cycle presented a number of challenges due the limited number of dinosaurs, including some vacant Biomes in the highest Tier. Vacant biomes require an exception to thye rufles, so that a Fusion is always posisble.

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