Coding Challenge #4 Lightning Effect

Coding By Builder

In this coding challenge I created a lightning effect.

This effect uses both object oriented program along with recursion. Each fork of lightning is its own object and is recursively updated and displayed.

Recursion is essentially just a function that calls itself until some base condition is met. In this case, when each branch of lightning is updated, it also updates its children. The base condition is that the branch is the last one (the lightning is given a ‘maximum level’ which indicates how many layers of branching to produce.

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