examples/math/randomExample/README.md
This openFrameworks Example is designed to demonstrate the OF random Engine and it's seeding.
During the ofBaseApp initializations (i.e. before the setup() call), OF instanciates a thread-safe random engine based on Mersenne-Twister, with a non-deterministic random seed sequence. This provides a centralized source of unpredictable randomness (which is generally what is expected by a random function).
However if desired, you can supply a determinist seed. This makes it possible to generate deterministic works (or test things with repeatable random).
This example demonstrates the Engine coupled with the ofShuffle function.
When launching this app, you should see:
Drag the seed value to activate determinism and notice how the sequence is shuffled differently. For a given seed, this random order will be the same, on all C++17 platforms (until the Mersenne-Twister implementation or std::uniform_int_distributions are modified or deprecated).
Click reset to destroy and re-instanciate the Engine, with a fresh random seed sequence.
This Example uses ofxGui.