[PD] Random

Dan Wilcox danomatika at gmail.com
Thu May 31 20:00:40 CEST 2018


Yeah. I could use it as [date] is the only reason I have zexy installed right now.

> On May 31, 2018, at 12:56 PM, hans w. koch <hansw.koch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> wouldn´t it be more interesting/useful to incorporate a [date] object into vanilla pd, from which it would be trivial to generate unique seeds, but which also could be used in (many) other contexts?
> 
> hans
> 
> 
>> Am 31.05.2018 um 19:21 schrieb Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> It would relatively easy to add a right outlet to [random]. Another option might be an explicit [seed] object which could give you further control or perhaps some creation flags for [random] as well.
>> 
>>>> you still have control on the seed... just seed it
>>> 
>>> no because you need to add an extra outlet to [random] and prints out the
>>> seed value.
>>> 
>>>> or even seed it with the system time on creation?
>>> 
>>> if one adds now this behaviour one need to put a flag for backward
>>> compatibility.
>>> 
>>>> what if [seed( without argument would take the current system time?
>>> 
>>> this could be an idea but one need the second outlet.
>>> 
>>> ciao
>>> -Marco Matteo Markidis
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