Re:Fish in remote tank made into fractals with Video Feedbac...
by cocobutter3 on Sunday July 28, 2024 @09:26AM
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This spawned an unrelated thought. Would using this source of input (a fish tank) be a good source of entropy? Would seen to me tracking fish movements would be quite random.
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Re:Fish in remote tank made into fractals with Video Feedbac...
by amelius on Sunday July 28, 2024 @09:36AM
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Reminds me of:
Re:Fish in remote tank made into fractals with Video Feedbac...
by thelightherder on Sunday July 28, 2024 @10:07AM
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Funny - after watching this video a friend had this same thought about the lava lamps and random numbers, then I had the same thought about using a fish tank to generate random numbers.
Re:Fish in remote tank made into fractals with Video Feedbac...
by mystified5016 on Sunday July 28, 2024 @05:28PM
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I dunno, I would suspect that fish would exhibit patterns when averaged over a long enough period. They probably patrol the perimeter regularly, check the same spots for food every few hours, some are territorial and will patrol their spot. They're probably not all that random. Living things tend not to be.
Re:Fish in remote tank made into fractals with Video Feedbac...
by ZoomZoomZoom on Sunday July 28, 2024 @07:43PM
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Repeating patterns are presumably observable on a longer time scale. If this is the case, there's multiple ways to separate higher frequencies which should provide higher entropy.