- I refer to everything as a yeast, even if they are the other stuff.
- I believe that yeasts work like blobs. The closer you get to the center of the blob, the earlier the yeast appears (higher seal time) I base this on some observations I've done, but more tests of kettles lined up North/South and East/West as well as precise entry times for a single yeast could better confirm this.
- The variations in seal time for a yeast is at a finer granularity than 1 coord square. I have bunched kettles in a single coord square and noticed small variations in precise seal times within the square. These variations increased from west to east in that particular square, leading me to believe in the blob idea. I have also seen the final list of yeasts that you get with an unsealed yeast test to change order within a coord square.
- The difference in strength of yeast is very slight for yeasts that appear very late. Within the same coord square, moving east to west, 3 yeasts changed positions with each other
- There are sharp lines that change things as well. One such line appears to be a line between 1599/1600 (E/W). 2 kettles, right next to each other, produced somewhat different results, but it appears that stuff still does cross that line. The yeast list at 1599,1539 was 69,29,84,23,14,62,10,88. At 1600,1539 it was 69,10,29,62,23,57,88,93,60,58,84,14,67,22. There were no other such drastic changes between adjacent kettles, and it was consistent among 4 rows.
-I believe that kettles do not change/vary over time. A kettle placed at a location will yield the exact same yeast list which will appear at the exact same time. I'm doing some experiments to confirm this.
-I believe that there are dividing lines that run between N/S coords as well. 2 tests, separated by 50 N/S coords, shared almost no yeasts in common. These were at 1600, 1550 and 1600, 1500. 1600, 1550 and 1600, 1540, shared nearly all the yeasts, just in a slightly different order.
Interesting :) Have you seen the work Ahakamin was doing on yeast seal times and distributions? - Spicy
I talked a bit to Ahakamin and told him the stuff I had figured out. I get all excited about investigating this every now and then and then get bored with it, because getting seal times down to the exact second is the height of fun. There is definitely a huge change on the 128 boundary both north/south and east/west. There are smaller changes at the 64 coordinate boundaries as you move east/west.
Has anyone every found a yeast that sealed earlier than 2364?