#36 Hourglass
This visualization program has a rough physics engine that simulates sand falling through the small aperture of an hourglass. The sand piles up in the bottom half of the hourglass; then the hourglass is turned over so the process repeats.
The Program in Action
Figure 36-1 shows what the output will look like when you run hourglass.py.
Figure 36-1: The output of the hourglass program with sand falling
How It Works
The hourglass program implements a rudimentary physics engine. A physics engine is software that simulates physical ...
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