Don't really have time for the tourney this year but always like doing the computation puzzle and I kinda like that it was a somewhat simpler one. I cannot really tell how I did in the metric, but at least the solve is nice to look at which means that it could be a good sum solve.

I'm excited to see what everyone else has made. Good luck in the tourney everyone!

(next part is explanation of the solve, feel free to skip if you want to)

Copying cardinal elements is easy with a duplicator, but the metals are more tricky. I'm using the bottom hexarm to count how many quicksilver can be used to upgrade the template, and 5 minus that number is how many quicksilver are needed to turn a new lead into the template atom. The hexarm is initialized such that that many quicksilver fit in its arms and the rest are filled with lead which don't get used in the projection glyph.

Secondly an animismus conditional is used to see if elements are duplicated from the template, which would mean that these would need to be output. This also cleanly makes the machine twice as fast for the saltlikes.