From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200206251717.g5PHHJMC002547@zonzorp.canada.sun.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting research possibility? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: "ozan s. yigit" Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:17:19 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b8ee736c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 | ... A friend suggested | watching patters of raindrops as an input. That is, until | we figure out how to calculate that. take a look at SGI's lava lamp random number generator for some ideas. the description (if memory serves, converting images of a lavalamp into numbers) should be in the SGI patent. also watch for www.lavarand.org for= the next version. = [it occurs to me that one can snarf images coming from north american highway cams. oh, i better go patent that, trademark "trafrand" and write= a journal paper about it. :-P] oz --- the only zen you find on the tops of mountains is the zen you bring up th= ere. -- robert m. pir= sig