Re: built in rv objects

[Van Dung Ly]

Rick,

The full description is somewhere in the ref. manual. This is what I
use .. (it's probably not the most elegant way to do things); I also went
hunting through the swarm header files.

- buildObjects
{
// snip

  id <UniformDoubleDist> udd;

  udd = [ UniformDoubleDist
          create: [self getZone]
          setGenerator: [MT19937gen create: [self getZone]
                                    setStateFromSeed: SLEEPYSEED] ];
//snip
          do
            {
              // give each cell a random color
              c = (int)([udd getDoubleWithMin: 0.0 withMax: 1.0] * 7.0);
            } while ( c == 0 );

        [aCell setColourX: c X: x Y: y];
//snip
}

Hope this helps.

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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Rick Riolo wrote:

> 
> I was looking around the 1.3.1 ref manual for
> a description of the available built in random distribution
> generators, eg, uniformUnsRand, but I couldn't find it.
> Could someone point me to where those are described?
> thanks!
>  - r
> 
> ps also, where is the --varySeed parameter use described anywhere
>    in the manual(s)?  
> 
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