Element Categories

[Fringe Pioneer]

May 24, 2010 6:34:09 GMT secret said:

By state

Stationary solids
Stays in place (i.e. not affected by gravity)
Dragable
Can be dragged (e.g. Wood)
Non-dragable
Cannot be dragged (e.g. Metal, C4)

Semi solids
Can be dragged but stretch instead of breaking into a ball of pixels (e.g. Moudable in the element thread)

Falling solids
Falls under gravity as a bulk and can be cleared by Clear (e.g. )

Powders
Falls under gravity as pixels (e.g. Seed)

Liquids
Spread horizontally and significantly (e.g. Soapy)

Gas
Spread both horizontally and vertically without generating any air pressure (e.g. Gas)

Plasma
Moves in a fixed pattern or act like Fire(e.g. Thunder)

Particles
Does not respond to gravity but to certain forces as pixels (e.g. Steam, Bombed state Metal)

Allotopes
Has more than one form (e.g. Glass)

By type

Hot elements/Lighters
Ignites elements (e.g. Magma)

Flammables
Can be ignited but does not generate sudden change in air pressure (e.g. Oil)

Explosive
Can be ignited and generates sudden change in air pressure (explode) (e.g. Nitro)

Conductors
Conducts electricity (e.g. Metal, Mercury)

Technology elements
Where most of its properties and uses are related to electronics (logic gates, circuits, machine etc.) (e.g. Laser, Thunder, Metal)

EM wave
Travels in straight lines, unaffected by other forces (e.g. Laser)

Functional elements
Brought a specific function and usually disappears after use (e.g. Glue, Virus)

Cold elements/Cryogens
Freeze elements (e.g. Ice, Ice balls)

Superfluids
Frictionless and 'flows' along walls and ceiling (e.g. LHe)

Reverse gravity
'Falls' upwards (e.g. Gas ball, Fire ball)

Metals
(Not used anymore as it cannot be properly defined in powder game's limited chemistry)

Temporary
Exists only for a brief moments (~1-3 frames) (e.g. Steam, Fire)

Standard elements
Has at least one reaction which is the same towards at least 10 elemnts (e.g. Fan, Magma, Acid)

Living powders
With behaviour other than those stated above and the name of the element is an organism in reality (e.g. Ant, Bird)

Duplicators
Duplicates elements as its main reaction (e.g. Fireworks, Clone)

Unclassfied
Does not behave in any ways stated above

[Elmach]

The wiki calls non-draggable stationary solids "Solids" and draggable stationary solids "Semi-solids".

Falling Solids are not elements-- they are non-elements.

Currently, Glass only has one form: black, solid, glass.

[Qwerty]

I guess we'll have to update the wiki, then.

However, glass has another form: Charged glass. Much like metal and charged metal.

[secret]

May 27, 2010 6:39:07 GMT Elmach said:

The wiki calls non-draggable stationary solids "Solids" and draggable stationary solids "Semi-solids".

Falling Solids are not elements-- they are non-elements.

For Semisolids, I think it'll be more approporate for elements that can be streched without breaking into a ball of pixels like Wood when Dragged (e.g. Mouldable suggested in the element threads)

Falling solids are technically elements as every single pixel can undergs reaction while objetcs (non elements) like Box can only react at a few collision points at the corners

[Elmach]

May 25, 2010 19:50:54 GMT Fringe Pioneer said:

May 24, 2010 6:34:09 GMT secret said:

Falling solids
Falls under gravity as a bulk (e.g. Element Balls)

All elements have each particle treated by itself.(definition) Falling solids would have all its particles be treated as a group.

[GloveParty]

Yay! Someone quoted my element! And yes, the falling solids like ball and box fall into the nonelement category. only four of box's pixels react to anything. Pen-size doesn't affect ball.

[secret]

May 31, 2010 13:17:01 GMT GloveParty said:

Yay! Someone quoted my element! And yes, the falling solids like ball and box fall into the nonelement category. only four of box's pixels react to anything. Pen-size doesn't affect ball.

We need a concrete definition for a "PG element" to clear the confusion of the Falling solid category

[Qwerty]

Things with their own sets of reaction that can be placed one pixel at a time and erased with the "Clear" tool?

The "clear" tool seems to pretty much define it. It says they aren't.

[secret]

hmm
So that means balls are technically non elements according to the definition

So that means we still don't have falling solids yet

[Qwerty]

Yup. And probably won't.

[~Memzak~]

Well I wouldn't be so sure about that... maybe a couple of years from now (or if we are lucky a couple of weeks) it could come out....

[jetplayer]

There is aa bg element

[Qwerty]

BG isn't an element. It just changes how elements are displayed. It's a setting.