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From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Interesting research possibility?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:24:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0206240919480.17320-100000@athena> (raw)

Sorry I'm so chatty today; I woke up this morning full of fire.

Take the new galaxy.c and change 'effects' line around 351 to the second
option.  Now run it and select the 'Sparkle' option.  Some thoughts ...

What's left on the screen after the galaxies collide is a *very*
random assortment of colors.  Suppose we take a quadrant sample of
that and generate a number out of it.  Would this work as a very
simple random number generator?

Sam



             reply	other threads:[~2002-06-24 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-24 13:24 Sam [this message]
2002-06-24 15:28 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-24 19:48 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2002-06-25 15:19 rog
2002-06-25 14:54 ` Sam
2002-06-25 17:17 ozan s. yigit
2002-06-25 17:42 presotto
2002-06-25 17:59 rog
2002-06-25 18:08 presotto
2002-06-25 19:59 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-25 20:23 presotto

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