Re: [PD] self-centering random walk

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 03:17 +0100, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

Here's an example of a random walk that is biased towards the middle of its range and is guaranteed not exceed its bounds.

Hope someone finds it useful, I'm using it for melodies in a generative piece (I'll publish the full patch in a couple of weeks).

Any statisticians want to analyse it further than I have? Anyone have any suggestions for improvements?

That's a really useful patch. Connecting the output multiplied by a constant to the right inlet of the metro is a really simple way to create some rhythmic interest!

Two questions:

• What are the arrays for? Are they intended for some kind of mapping

after [random] ?

• Why do you use $0- for the subpatches, is there some reason why they

need to have names that are unique to the enclosing root canvas?

Jamie