Orphalese Tarot Zone Community Forum

Thanks for this! There aren't a lot of software developers who are this responsive to their customers.

Hi Richard, That page that you found is a goldmine. It opens up the whole thing. I have the book which it refers to so I'll look it up. The plots of even the weaker randomizer in action are pretty impressive (though not unexpected - it's just reassuring to see it in action graphically). Thanks! I'm ...

Just a small note - I wasn't able to scroll through the popup notes with my trackpad. Many laptop trackpads have a feature that supposedly does what a mouse wheel does (scroll), usually activated by moving your finger up and down along the right edge of the trackpad. It did not work for the popup no...

Hi Richard, If you give the Orphalese Tarot the same benefit of the doubt, that it might be running on any machine, at any time, anywhere in the world, then obviously it can reach any possible deck too - on the first shuffle. If we're talking about a copy of Orphalese that has already been used a lo...

Richard, Well, I am still very doubtful about that... If you look at the physics of shuffling the deck in a very mechanical, modernistic way, in which the universe is seen as a giant machine, there can only really be one outcome from a human shuffling a deck. Supposing you have perfect, godlike know...

Richard, Oops, I misinterpreted your comment. You wrote: "What it makes me think, in fact, is that your original assertion that a human shuffler, in six shuffles, can produce a thoroughly randomised deck can't be right." I misinterpreted what you were talking about. I thought you were talk...

Richard, May I suggest the following hybrid: the program collects mouse data in the way you suggest. Do not display prominently what it is doing but allow the user to find out if he's curious. Then, when the user performs the shuffle, use the mouse data until it is used up, and when it is used up sw...

Hi Richard, You make the point: "What it makes me think, in fact, is that your original assertion that a human shuffler, in six shuffles, can produce a thoroughly randomised deck can't be right." Well, I did make a mistake but it wasn't that. The mistake was to forget, in my last reply, to...

Hi Richard, Just to clarify, does the 10,000 figure mean 10,000 ticks per millisecond, or in other words, 10,000,000 ticks per second? It sounds like it, I just wanted to double-check. If that's true, that's really good. That may, unfortunately, not be enough to guarantee that the tick count can tak...

Richard, Thanks. Like you, I haven't had success so far finding how the Random.Next() method works internally. I suppose it might change from version to version of .Net. I'll keep looking and let you know if I find anything, but for now I'll trust that it's a good algorithm that makes good use of th...