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Pre-ordered Portal 2. Played it. Beat it. Loved it. But what I can’t get over is how they redesigned some of the Aperture technology: the cameras, the cubes, and especially the processor cores. While I love the new cores as characters, and feel the addition of eyelids was a nice touch, they just seem too mechanically complicated.
Thus, I made this diagram of all the portal cores using the simple and beautifully organic-looking design of the first game.

1.Morality Core

2.Curiosity Core

3.Logic Core

4.Emotion Core

5.Intelligence-Dampening Core a.k.a. “Wheatley”

6.Sarcasm Core: Although having never been physically identified, it is mentioned in both games and would have been among the cores that ’woke up’ at the end of portal. As no other core has shown the design of the waking cores, I assigned it to Sarcasm .

7.Party Escort Associate: The robot that dragged Chell’s body back into the facility for brain scan and recloning. (How did you think she looked so much younger in Portal 2?) Only it’s arms and personality core head were ever shown.

8.Flashlight Core: Seen hanging above the bin of corrupted cores with it’s flashlight on. It looked very weak as a reference to Wheatley saying that use of his flashlight would kill him.

9.Corrupt Space Core

10.Corrupt Adventure Core a.k.a. “Rick”

11.Corrupt Fact Core a.k.a. “Craig”

12.Unknown Corrupt Core: As it was inactive when first seen among the other corrupt cores, it’s name, color, and function are a complete mystery.

13.Generic core with eyelids closed

14.Generic inactive core a.k.a "Weighted Companion Ball"

15.Rocket Turret Core: Now new and improved with double-barrel

16.Unknown core cut from Portal 2

Made in MS Paint
For those wondering, I did not include Atlas, the Core Bomb, or the Edgeless Safety Cube because they do not fit into the basic core design, and because I’m lazy.

Description
Pre-ordered Portal 2. Played it. Beat it. Loved it. But what I can’t get over is how they redesigned some of the Aperture technology: the cameras, the cubes, and especially the processor cores. While I love the new cores as characters, and feel the addition of eyelids was a nice touch, they just seem too mechanically complicated.
Thus, I made this diagram of all the portal cores using the simple and beautifully organic-looking design of the first game.

1.Morality Core

2.Curiosity Core

3.Logic Core

4.Emotion Core

5.Intelligence-Dampening Core a.k.a. “Wheatley”

6.Sarcasm Core: Although having never been physically identified, it is mentioned in both games and would have been among the cores that ’woke up’ at the end of portal. As no other core has shown the design of the waking cores, I assigned it to Sarcasm .

7.Party Escort Associate: The robot that dragged Chell’s body back into the facility for brain scan and recloning. (How did you think she looked so much younger in Portal 2?) Only it’s arms and personality core head were ever shown.

8.Flashlight Core: Seen hanging above the bin of corrupted cores with it’s flashlight on. It looked very weak as a reference to Wheatley saying that use of his flashlight would kill him.

9.Corrupt Space Core

10.Corrupt Adventure Core a.k.a. “Rick”

11.Corrupt Fact Core a.k.a. “Craig”

12.Unknown Corrupt Core: As it was inactive when first seen among the other corrupt cores, it’s name, color, and function are a complete mystery.

13.Generic core with eyelids closed

14.Generic inactive core a.k.a "Weighted Companion Ball"

15.Rocket Turret Core: Now new and improved with double-barrel

16.Unknown core cut from Portal 2

Made in MS Paint
For those wondering, I did not include Atlas, the Core Bomb, or the Edgeless Safety Cube because they do not fit into the basic core design, and because I’m lazy.