On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Ed Kelly wrote:

I'm using [urn] so I tried feeding a [random 500] -> [seed $1( into the [urn], but every time it's the same result. According to the documentation "if you don't give it a seed then each instance of random gets its own seed" but every time I initiate the patch the result is the same.

BTW there is also [# rand] which uses libc's random() (actually random()%n), and also, merely loading gridflow will call srandom() to seed it with the system time.

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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:58:19AM +0000, Ed Kelly wrote:

I'd like my patch to create a different random each time it's loaded.

I'm using [urn] so I tried feeding a [random 500] -> [seed $1( into the [urn], but every time it's the same result. According to the documentation "if you don't give it a seed then each instance of random gets its own seed" but every time I initiate the patch the result is the same.

Is there an object that will give me the current date and/or time, so that I can use that as a seed to the random and urn objects???

Apart from the solutions based on current time, I also had success with using the adc~ as a seed on RjDj/iPthing. Of course it needs audio input, but if you have that, just [snapshot~] and scale accordingly to get a sufficiently random seed.

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