Re: [PD] To divide a number in random parts

On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Markus Demmel wrote:

You could try this approach(I also attached a patch with it): 48 = 4 * 10 + 1 * 8 so you use n1=random(10) n2 = 10 - n1 n3 = random(10) n4 = 10-n3 . . n9 = random(8) n10 = 8 - n9

But this makes the odd-ordered chords to start at every 10 seconds. I believe that Caio wants something more random than that.

BTW I have another idea :

initialise all of them to equal or almost equal amounts, then modify the delays gradully : pick a donor randomly among delays that aren't already minimum ; pick a acceptor randomly among delays that aren't already maximum ; give one unit of delay from the donor to the acceptor.

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