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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2012 12:12:06 GMT
As used by most people here and on the Dan-Ball Wiki, Living Powder is the term given to Ant and Bird. However, this term is very ambiguous. Birds aren't affected by gravity to any extent, and uncharged Ant behaves as a liquid.
My question is, why do we use the term as it is? Why not "living dots" or even just regular states of matter?
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Post by endy123 on May 19, 2012 14:15:00 GMT
I generally found them to be more powder-like than liquid like.
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Bird can have powders rest on top of it.
Uncharged Ant doesn't exchange positions with powders.
realistically though everything is defined by the internal position exchange rules and not any terms we think up for it.
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Post by Qwerty on May 19, 2012 19:48:42 GMT
Yeah, we just have to take the set of properties that they follow (eg, ant acts more like a liquid but sink below powders) and judge it based off that. "Living powders" seems to be a class that makes no sense as liquid or powder or gas. As such it seems strange to have "powders" in the name. Perhaps it should just be "Life"?
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2012 23:30:19 GMT
I generally found them to be more powder-like than liquid like. ie. Bird can have powders rest on top of it. Uncharged Ant doesn't exchange positions with powders. realistically though everything is defined by the internal position exchange rules and not any terms we think up for it. True. Ant could have the same weight as Powders, but maybe Bird is a Powder... |
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Post by Clockwork on May 20, 2012 23:57:00 GMT
They're just elements that behave on an AI, rather than general physics. Like how water raises above certain powders. But ant doesn't behave general physics like that. Neither does bird.
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Post by Qwerty on May 21, 2012 3:23:22 GMT
Ant sorta does act as a material, bird is the only one that really has an AI of sorts.
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Post by Clockwork on May 21, 2012 13:49:39 GMT
Ant defies gravity, so does bird!
They don't follow a single rule when it comes to gravity, when ANT comes into contact with, say, metal, it goes against gravity, or goes in all directions. Bird also goes in all directions (away from other elements, with a few exceptions).
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Post by Qwerty on May 21, 2012 22:11:50 GMT
Ah, you're talking about activated ant. I mean inactive ant. Once activated, yes, they have an AI.
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