[PD] random seed

[pix]

was there ever a solution to this? is there even a way to get the
time-of-day inside pd in order to send reasonably random seeds manually
within pd?

pix.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:17:29PM +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> > > To avoid this behaviour, it's best to NOT give a seed at all.  Or to
> > > provide a seed that is always different (like the operating system's
> > > clock time).
> are you sure about this??? 
> the initial seed is given by this function:
> 
> static int makeseed(void)
> {
>     static unsigned int random_nextseed = 1489853723;
>     random_nextseed = random_nextseed * 435898247 + 938284287;
>     return (random_nextseed & 0x7fffffff);
> }
> 
> and this seems to be pretty deterministic ... doesn't it?
> 
> > Like I said, I remember it worked different on windoze, so I wonder if
> > it has anything to do with PD's access to the random number pool in 
> > Linux. I guess that's one for Miller or Guenter to puzzel over ;-)
> 
> although every random object you will create has a different seed, if
> you load a patch at startup without giving seeds, the random objects
> will return the same results every time the patch is started ... on
> windows as on linux ...
> 
> cheers...
> 
>  Tim                          mailto:TimBlechmann at gmx.de
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