IgnitionModel

interface IgnitionModel

import type { IgnitionModel } from '@driftengine/chemistry';

In depth

There is no ignite() that sets a boolean and starts a fire, and §11 is the argument. Ignition is what happens when the conditions for it are met, and there are five because there are five real ones. ignite supplies a pilot for one tick; holding a match to wet wood does exactly nothing, which is correct and is the API telling the truth about what a match is.

The mass flux is the real criterion and the temperature is the cheap proxy. Ignition happens when enough fuel is coming off the surface to make a flammable mixture above it; the surface temperature is a correlate of that rather than a cause. Both are kept, because the temperature is what a consumer reads in an interface — this is getting hot — and the flux is what decides.

Properties