This was inspired by the physics of the game Sugar, Sugar. It’s a neat flash game I remember from my childhood (7 years ago). At the top of each level, there are the words “Sugar, Sugar.” Sugar pours out of the comma, and you must direct it to the various coffee mugs by drawing ramps with the mouse pointer

It’s interesting because it simulates particles only by manipulating pixels – there is no gravitational acceleration, and this allows quite a lot of sugar to be simulated.

so I decided to create a sorting-based physics engine in python. This isn’t about to be implemented into a similar game, mainly because I got sidetracked. Bob Ross says there are no mistakes, just happy accidents. Instead of pulling sugar straight down, this one sorts in random directions to create an interesting pattern. This is a 2-dimensional bubble sort with a twist – it swaps only within single pairs of values, preventing a value from traveling farther than 1 square per frame.