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.k...@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 <danomat...@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 > >> > >> -------- > >> Dan Wilcox > >> @danomatika > >> danomatika.com > >> robotcowboy.com > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > -------- > Dan Wilcox > @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> > danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> > robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list