From: e_w_g@t-online.de (Eckhart Guthöhrlein)
Subject: Re: Random repeat?
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:33:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010910093259.00aa5240@public.uni-hamburg.de> (raw)
At 20:54 09.09.2001 +0200, Frans Goddijn wrote:
>Every once in a while a randomly created logo wrap comes out exceptionally
>nice. Is there a way that I could reproduce that later on? In the log file
>of the present one which looks like a funny poke at a heraldic design I
>read:
>
>Randomizer initialized to 1458579309.
>
>Can I feed that same number back in some way to get the same result again if
>I ever want to? Of course it's typical for me to be really happy with a
>truly random result and then wishing I could control that ;=}}
As far as I know, this value is only used for the random number generator
in TeX. Have a look in your xxx-mpgraph.log after the run with the nice
result, there you will find a line
{randomseed:=...}
assigning some value initializing mp's randomizer. Note this value, e.g.
292, and then say
randomseed:=292
in your graphics, and the results will always be identically random :-)
Eckhart
next reply other threads:[~2001-09-10 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-10 7:33 Eckhart Guthöhrlein [this message]
2001-09-10 8:47 ` Frans Goddijn
2001-09-10 10:37 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2001-09-10 11:51 ` Frans Goddijn
2001-09-10 11:14 ` Hans Hagen
2001-09-10 11:15 ` Hans Hagen
2001-09-10 12:06 ` Frans Goddijn
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2001-09-09 18:54 Frans Goddijn
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