To be fair, it's pretty nasty that the Rules are named ambiguously, where a critical part of the "Rule+" of interest is something (the background pattern) in t

To be fair, it's pretty nasty that the Rules are named ambiguously, where a critical part of the "Rule+" of interest is something (the background pattern) in the CA system but outside the Rule system. It's fixable, but still gross, and plays into Wolfram's style of making things seem more profound by hiding the ball.