Hi Alan, > Since it appears you can implement this internally (i.e., no additional > external libraries are involved) I encourage you to go ahead two weeks from > now. From Wikipedia, the Mersenne Twister RNG is a better choice than the > historical but rather flawed middle-square method that I mentioned. Also, > your idea of putting a RNG within the PLplot library rather than example 21 > is a good one. I have required RNG's for past plotting needs, I am sure > many of our users have similar needs. Furthermore, the interactive example > 17 could use a library RNG as well as example 21. Finally, it means we only > have to implement a binding interface to the C version of the RNG for each > of our bindings. That is actually much simpler than implementing the same > RNG in many different languages for example 21 (and 17).
Ok, so I'll go ahead implementing the code. Regards, Werner -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
