On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 03:09:49PM +0200, Dirk Feytons wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:58 PM, G? Weijers <ge@weijers.org> wrote: > [...] > > My favorite is the 'Well' generator > > http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~panneton/WELLRNG.html > > Bob Jenkins' ISAAC (http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaacafa.html) > appears to be quite good, assuming of course it is seeded properly. > It's also in the public domain. Another popular one is the Mersenne Twister, which I've seen credited many times in console games. The stock implementation used to be GPL but is now BSD, and there are several Lua implementations/hooks including "Numeric Lua" over at LuaForge and "lrandom" from lhf (who has already replied in this thread :-) http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister -Dave Dodge