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: <b>Fig A.</b> Front propagation speed. <b>Fig B.</b> Chaotic front spawning. <b>Fig C.</b> Propensity of disruptive events for inert boundary conditions. <b>Fig D.</b> Front speed reduction due to the vicinity of a previous front. <b>Fig E.</b> Histogram of the temporal distance Δt from the expected arrival time to the nearest arrival time, conditioned on whether a front was initiated in the given slot. <b>Fig F.</b> Dependence of Wfail and Wspawn on model parameters. <b>Fig G.</b> Bitrate dependence on the number of E, I, and R substates. Text A with <b>Fig H.</b> Maximum bitrate for non-equiprobable binary symbols. Text B with Fig I. Alternative decoding: Bitrate estimation based on more than one front arrival time. (PDF)