software to help decide among a list of items
TSasha Smith
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I want something to help me choose randomly from a list of objects. I also want it free.
Scenario 1- a liste of ideas or themes to render in DS
Scenario 2- choosing a product to use from items I got from daz. And try to find somehow to use it.
Scenario 3- Have same software choose the idea or theme of the render and a product that must be used in that render
Scenario 4- make a list of tv shows or movies available to stream on the services already subscribed to. It chooses the item randomly. Doesn´t need to remove item after selected in case that item is a series or a long movie.
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For free ?? That'd be probably in your dream...
I was asking if someone has already made it for free?
AFAIK, nope....
May I suggest a counting-out rhyme? Bubblegum in a Dish or some such? Flip a coin, roll a dice?
I don't (willingly) use AI so I couldn't say for sure if it would work, but I feel like most of those questions would go on one of those commercials that some guy's yelling "Hey, Alexa!"
For S1~3, technically it won't be difficult to develop an app based on cms database. Whether making it for free will be another story...
About 20 some years ago I took some programming classes at college. The problem it was about 20 years ago, a lot probably changed and my memory might have faded.
Maybe I can make this software. Thankfully there is YouTube.now. I can't remember when YouTube started, but I think it was under 20 years ago.
I forgot the name of the compiler but I think Microsoft makes it. Is that still good?
A quick search: it launched 20 years ago this year, actually.
...trippy.
It feels like it's both older and newer than that. Pretty solid staying power for a social media platform, though, when you think about it.
But yeah, I'm sure there are some good (and not so good) tutorials out there, if you know what to search for.
Scenario 1
This is something you can get AI to do - go to Chatgpt or Grok or whatever and say "give me 20 ideas for pictures I can render." Actually, you probably need to give it a bit more to go on than that - maybe start with a set of themes that you enjoy working in, then ask AI to elaborate, rather than giving it a completely blank canvas. Some of the ideas it comes back with are terrible, but that's why you ask for 20 of them and pick the best. Or you could ask the AI for a list of themes to start with and drill down from there. Essentially you're using the AI for brainstorming, wheere you go for quantity of ideas over quality, then filter out the rubbish later.
Scenario 2
If you can extract a list of your product library one line per product, which musr be possible somehow. there are free dervices that will let you choose from them at random. https://www.random.org/lists/ will sort a list of up to 10,000 items into a random order - then you pick the top one.
Scenario 3
If you're up for some simple coding, try perchance.org. It's great for combining randomised lists - so get your list of themes from scenario 1, the list of products from scenario 2, and mash them together. The template language isn't difficult to pick up - start here: https://perchance.org/tutorial
Scenario 4
If you can get the list of shows from somewhere (the TV services' web site?), you can use the above techniques to do the picking.
DIM has an option to export selected products to csv - just select some (or all), right-click, and select the export option; you can use the filter option before hand to limit the result. Once it's in a csv format there are several options for random selection.
Didn't the Art Studio 'RRR' competitions have some kind of randomizer program that could do what you are asking? Or close to it? I could never figure it out so I may be totally off the mark.