[PD] Random

[Miller Puckette]

Warning:  [date] won't work so well on Raspberry Pi startup scripts (no
way to save date from boot to boot).

I think the best vanilla way on linux or mac is to read /dev/random into
an array using soundfiler.

cheers
Miller

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:00:40PM -0500, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> 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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