Georg Bosch wrote:
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Andrew Faraday wrote:
Just an idea, but if the hardware random number generators use a jittery oscillator etc. Why not use [noise~] and [snapshot~] followed by some arithmetic and [int] you could build what I assume would be more random than the [random] box.
weird idea. especially, since [noise~] uses exactly the same pseudo-random algorithm as [snapshot~].
Snapshot~ outputs random numbers? That would explain a lot of oddities in my patches ;)
man, it was early in the morning....
What does make sense is to use noise *from the adc* with snapshot~ to get seeds for your random objects, I think that was what Frank meant with the "Can of Beats" patch.
yes that is a perfectly good idea (at least if you can make sure that the [adc~] will be hooked up to some real-world soundsource)
and then there is the wide range of time-based seeds (e.g. uptime of the computer, system time...)
gf asdrm IOhannes