Gravity systems

Review Pressure

surface items needing review before they decay, expire, or block work

Running the actual pattern live via applyPattern() — switch the substrate, stack overlays, watch the signals, or reverse the dynamics. Not a mock.

"Review Pressure" — surface items needing review before they decay, expire, or block work. It has a gravity layer (universal attraction toward mass), a pressure layer (relax crowding (incompressibility)), a memory layer (a decaying trail / hysteresis), a morph layer (assemble matter into a mark/shape (never words, §11)), and a thermal layer (agitate matter at a temperature). The active render stack is heatmap, metaballs, particles, dots.

Items build gravitational priority as the weak pull of age and pressure accumulates; thermal stands in for rising entropy so high-risk or blocked work surfaces on its own while low-risk stays calm.

Runtime tokens: gravity universal attraction toward masspressure relax crowding (incompressibility)memory a decaying trail / hysteresismorph assemble matter into a mark/shape (never words, §11)thermal agitate matter at a temperature
Concepts: review pressure
Metrics: review-pressure a semantic lane — drive it with data-field-<metric> (or a domain model); without that its --field-<metric> stays inertage a semantic lane — drive it with data-field-<metric> (or a domain model); without that its --field-<metric> stays inertrisk written only when the host supplies it — the engine never invents confidence/riskpriority computed every frame by the platform (proximity · engagement · relationships · age) review-pressure, age are host-supplied lanes — drive them with data-field-<metric> (or a domain model); without that, their --field-* stays inert.
Diagnostics: potential heatmap inspector
Conditions: stale
Render: heatmap · metaballs · particles · dots
Reduced motion: a review queue ranking with urgency badges and age markers
Without motion: pressure becomes a sorted review queue where age and risk are explicit badges per item

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<field-root></field-root>
  <div data-body="gravity" data-strength="1.1" data-range="400" data-feedback></div>
  <div data-body="pressure" data-strength="0.8" data-range="320"></div>
  <div data-body="memory" data-strength="0.6" data-range="280"></div>
  <div data-body="morph" data-strength="0.5" data-range="240"></div>
  <div data-body="thermal" data-strength="0.5" data-range="260"></div>

<script type="module">
  import '@fundamental-engine/elements';
</script>

<field-root></field-root>
  <div data-body="gravity" data-strength="1.1" data-range="400" data-feedback></div>
  <div data-body="pressure" data-strength="0.8" data-range="320"></div>
  <div data-body="memory" data-strength="0.6" data-range="280"></div>
  <div data-body="morph" data-strength="0.5" data-range="240"></div>
  <div data-body="thermal" data-strength="0.5" data-range="260"></div>

import { FieldField } from '@fundamental-engine/react';

export default function ReviewPressure() {
  return (
    <FieldField>
      <div data-body="gravity" data-strength="1.1" data-range="400" data-feedback />
      <div data-body="pressure" data-strength="0.8" data-range="320" />
      <div data-body="memory" data-strength="0.6" data-range="280" />
      <div data-body="morph" data-strength="0.5" data-range="240" />
      <div data-body="thermal" data-strength="0.5" data-range="260" />
    </FieldField>
  );
}

{
  "id": "review-pressure",
  "name": "Review Pressure",
  "intent": "surface items needing review before they decay, expire, or block work",
  "naturalField": "gravity",
  "primitives": [
    "gravity",
    "pressure",
    "memory",
    "morph",
    "thermal"
  ],
  "bodies": [
    {
      "body": "gravity",
      "strength": 1.1,
      "range": 400,
      "feedback": true
    },
    {
      "body": "pressure",
      "strength": 0.8,
      "range": 320
    },
    {
      "body": "memory",
      "strength": 0.6,
      "range": 280
    },
    {
      "body": "morph",
      "strength": 0.5,
      "range": 240
    },
    {
      "body": "thermal",
      "strength": 0.5,
      "range": 260
    }
  ],
  "render": [
    "heatmap",
    "metaballs",
    "particles",
    "dots"
  ],
  "metrics": [
    "review-pressure",
    "age",
    "risk",
    "priority"
  ],
  "diagnostics": [
    "potential",
    "heatmap",
    "inspector"
  ],
  "accessibility": {
    "reducedMotion": "a review queue ranking with urgency badges and age markers",
    "meaningWithoutMotion": "pressure becomes a sorted review queue where age and risk are explicit badges per item"
  },
  "notes": "Items build gravitational priority as the weak pull of age and pressure accumulates; thermal stands in for rising entropy so high-risk or blocked work surfaces on its own while low-risk stays calm.",
  "tier": "systems",
  "status": "shipped",
  "concepts": [
    "review pressure"
  ],
  "conditions": [
    "stale"
  ]
}

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