Chapters; 1. Introduction; 2. The resistance of an update family; 3. The main theorem and an outline of the proof; 4. Locally inherited resistance; 5. Finding a rational direction in which to grow; 6. Construction of the quasistable set; 7. The resistance of induced update families; 8.

Polytopes; 9. The bootstrap process in a polytope; 10. Interiors, extensions, buffers, and growth sequences; 11. Deterministic growth of droplets; 12. The proof of Theorem; A. Properties of canonical polytopes; B. The distance between faces of a polytope; C. Interiors and extensions; D.

Some technical details from Chapters and; E. Perfectly covering a polytope with smaller polytopes.