afaik, rands is a pseudo random number generator and the results are deterministic. Would it be possible, say,  to bring out  the time of day into the scad code, so that it could be used as a seed for rands?

Am 22.10.24 um 16:08 schrieb Raymond West via Discuss: > afaik, rands is a pseudo random number generator and the results are deterministic. Would it be possible, say,  to bring out  the time of day into the scad code, so that it could be used as a seed for rands? OpenSCAD seeds the random generator by itself on every new render. Try -------- values=rands(0,1,10); echo(values=values); -------- You will get different values on every save

Thanks. I'd completely missed that. I won't tell you that I've just written a python script to generate a list of random numbers seeded by the  system clock which can be imported to my scad code. 😳 On 22/10/2024 16:21, jjvbhh via Discuss wrote: > Am 22.10.24 um 16:08 schrieb Raymond West via Discuss: > > afaik, rands is a pseudo random number generator and the results are > deterministic. Would it be possible, say,  to bring out  the time of > day into the scad code, so that it could be used as a seed for rands? > > > OpenSCAD seeds the random generator by itself on every new render. > > Try > -------- > values=rands(0,1,10); > echo(values=values); > -------- > You will get different values on every save > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org