Lavarand
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lavarand-314-5813095
title:
Lavarand
text:
Lavarand, also known as the Wall of Entropy, was a hardware random number generator designed by Silicon Graphics that worked by taking pictures of the patterns made by the floating material in lava lamps, extracting random data from the pictures, and using the result to seed a pseudorandom number generator.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Random number generator based on lava lamp motion
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-26T06:35:56Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Lava_lamp_wall_at_Cloudflare_office_-2.jpg","width":3024,"height":4032}
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