Lightning Exists

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example output from 06-bang
example output from prog

Inspiration

I was inspired by the Generative Art and Pen Plotting demonstration yesterday by Travess Smalley, the books he brought about programming art, the atmosphere of this event as a whole, and the persistent stress throughout my life that somehow building my own projects was unfeasible/not for me/too complex in ways that stopped me from learning. Today, I made something which exists.

What it does

My work is a set of bash scripts that display patterns inspired by lightning in a Linux terminal.

How I built it

I found two very helpful onboarding sources for bash scripting, namely https://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/bash/index.html and https://devhints.io/bash, which gave me just enough information not to spoil the puzzle while allowing me to move where I wanted logically & functionally.

Challenges I ran into

I started very late! The time crept up on me.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The planning stage went super smoothly. Once I knew what I could do, carefully thought everything through, and I stuck with the process long enough to see results I expected.