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I have invented a new way to seed the random number generator with about as random a source of seeds as can be found: hashes generated from high cadence, high resolution images of the surface of the Sun. These are captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's (SDO) Atmospheric Imaging Assembly's (AIA) cameras at various frequencies. I wrote the POC code in Python and can be seen at https://github.com/flybd5/heliorandom. The HelioViewer project liked the idea and modified their API to do essentially what my POC code does at https://api.helioviewer.org/?action=getRandomSeed. Perhaps a solarseed() call could be created for the library to get seeds that way rather than from the system clock? |
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