Cart that loads another cart and saves an index of previously loaded carts.

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 13:58:55 UTC

I've made a couple of carts that I plan to use as a visual installation.
My setup is this:
One loader cart that selects a random number as index.
The loader cart uses the random number to index and load one of the visualiser carts.
When the visualiser cart has run for some time, it loads the loader cart again.
Repeat infinitely

The setup works pretty decent, but I have two issues:
Often the same visualiser cart gets selected several times in a row.
The random number generator tends to select some of the carts far more often than others.

My idea was to create an array that saves the indices in the loader cart. If the index is in the array, it should select a new number.
The issue is that the array in the loader cart doesn't seem to persist in between loads.
I tried passing the array to the visualiser cart but stat(6) doesn't seem to accept arrays.

Am I overcomplicating things and there's a simpler way to do it?

Select random index from array

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:04:05 UTC

I'm trying to randomly select a value from an array.
I expected this to get me a random index in the array, but I'm getting the same every time.

 stmp={-130,50,500,1000,1500,2000,3000,3500}
 strt=rnd(#stmp)
 t=stmp[ceil(strt)]
 print(#stmp)
 print(strt)
 print(t)

Always prints:

I've used rnd() in other carts but I've never encountered this behavior before, please advice.

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Cart that loads another cart and saves an index of previously loaded carts.

Select random index from array