Sorting a structure randomly

This could easily be done with a multiplexer and a relatively short list of files.

Then again, you might have a lot of movies, who knows :-) ?

How's about running an LFO or if you want to go really quickly, a random number patch [Animation] to the indexing of that directory structure?

See attached.

dude - love that little avatar icon of yours - but you really need to sort out your Kineme link, which like many another I've found points to kineme's domain, because it has been incorrectly entered as http://kineme.net/users/bikthefellas.wordpress.com, when you mean to point to your actual wordpress setup [ which looks like it's still W.I.P, unless I'm much mistaken].

... or using my little plugin for getting random numbers of indexes: http://code.google.com/p/cogerandom/downloads/list

I can build an example patch later, but at the moment i'm on a windows machine...

yeah, good call :-)

BTW, you could always set the timebase of the LFO or Random patch to use patch or system time, that would spice things up even more :-) .

double post in error

sorry dude! ;) i made a mistake between personal URL an working URL ;) (i'm feeling like the newbbie that i'm ;)

just provided to correct the mistake

It's a great example of using the LFO for randomizing...but it's not what i need :(

i'd like just to sort randomly that list and then keep using it as a structure.

Something like the Structure sort object in QC...

heres some javascript code that gives you a structure of randomly sorted indices.

var result = new Object();
function (__structure indices) main (__number reorder,__index count)
{
 
     tindices=[];
     for(i=0;i<count;i++)
     {
          tindices[i]=i;
     }
     result.indices=[];
 
     for(i=0;i<count;i++)
   {
      index=Math.floor(Math.random()*tindices.length);
      result.indices[i]=tindices[index];
      tindices.splice(index,1);
   }     
   return result;
}

the cogeRandom patch takes a similar approach but it will just return one index instead of a structure of them. it gives you a new one on each rising edge at the "new number" input port. it will return -1 when it uses up all the indices (then you need to reset it).

i wonder why something like this is not in the description of the patch ;).

edit:

var result = new Object();
function (__structure randomizedStructure) main (__number reorder,__structure orderedStructure)
{
if(!_testMode)
{
     tindices=[];
     for(i=0;i<orderedStructure.length;i++)
     {
          tindices[i]=i;
     }
     result.randomizedStructure=[];
 
     for(i=0;i<orderedStructure.length;i++)
   {
      index=Math.floor(Math.random()*tindices.length);
      result.randomizedStructure[i]=orderedStructure[index];
      tindices.splice(index,1);
   }     
   return result;
}
}

had the first code in some composition, but this should do exactly what you need.