[PD] Really random random from date and time

[Chris McCormick]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:00:15AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:58:19AM +0000, Ed Kelly wrote:
> > I'd like my patch to create a different random each time it's loaded.
> > 
> > I'm using [urn] so I tried feeding a [random 500] -> [seed $1( into the [urn], 
> > but every time it's the same result. According to the documentation "if you 
> > don't give it a seed then each instance of random gets its own seed" but every 
> > time I initiate the patch the result is the same.
> > 
> > Is there an object that will give me the current date and/or time, so that I can 
> > use that as a seed to the random and urn objects???
> 
> Apart from the solutions based on current time, I also had success with using
> the adc~ as a seed on RjDj/iPthing. Of course it needs audio input, but if you
> have that, just [snapshot~] and scale accordingly to get a sufficiently random
> seed.

One other thing you can do is wait for some user input (knob twiddle, touch
screen, press key etc.) and then seed based on [timer].

Cheers,

Chris.

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