[issue]: Variation Seed and Initial Seed share the same Random/Fixed state (Bool) about automatic HOT 6 CLOSED

ah, i understand now.
its not that variation seed was locked, its just that seed was used to initialize random number generator before variation seed random pick happens, so it pretty much always picked the same random number.

fixed.

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Reopen. I thought 7998f40 resolved but i did not have Initial seed set to fixed / reuse. Variation seed fixed / reuse bool is still linked to the initial seed fixed / reuse bool.

Sorry for the confusion

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Video screen capture
https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic/assets/33190317/70b2a298-4bb0-465d-bff9-e4a466278f4b

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i just noticed one other thing that variation seed was not correctly added to metadata, that is now fixed.

regarding your notes, i'm not sure what is the expected behavior?
maybe i'm wrong, but from what i can tell, both seed and variation seed random and reuse are now independent of each other and are working fine.

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Which commit version and I will test.

Please correct me if i am wrong, the way I understand the "Variation Seed" is to add additional noise to the "Initial Seed". We use it to generate altered variations of a particular determined seed. As of right now (commit f55e14b) this is true but the Variation does not generate random numbers when the Initial Seed is locked to a determined seed value. I posted a video capture in my response above. What it shows is : https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic/assets/33190317/70b2a298-4bb0-465d-bff9-e4a466278f4b

Part 1 : Initial Seed and Variation Seed are set to random. I first show that the Variation Seed will generate a unique seed for every generation. I do this by applying the "Reuse Image" button to show the seed value.

Part 2 : Initial Seed is set to a fixed seed value, Variation Seed is set to random and the Variation Strength is increased to allow the variation to alter the initial image. What you will notice is that on the first image generation after the Initial Seed has been locked is that the Variation will generate a new seed value (thus a new image), however on further generations the Variation seed becomes stuck (?) and will not generate a new random seed value (thus the same image being generated) even though the Variation is set to be random. This prevents generating unique alterations of the initial seed. I show that the Variation seed is stuck by applying the "Reuse Image" button to show the seed value, then reset back to random, generate a new image, and repeat. You will notice that the Variation seed value and the image generated do not change.

For some reason you will get a new Variation seed value on the first image generation after the Initial Seed value has been locked but not after the first image generation. So if you are trying to run Variations of a particular seed you get one image generation then it gets stuck.

Example:

1. Lets use 12345 for the initial seed value.
2. Variation Seed = Random and Variation Strength is increased. We expect to get a new random number for every generation and with it a altered image generated.
3. After the first image generation we get a new Variation Seed 67890 and in return we get a altered generated image.
   Rendering a new image again we would expect a different alteration of the image as we would expect a different Variation seed value.
   Instead we get the exact same image because the Variation seed value never changes. It stays 67890 even though it is set to be a new random value.

Again Variation Seed random generation only gets stuck when the Initial seed is locked to a determined seed. I suspect somehow that the Variation Seed is referencing some value of the Initial Seed. I would think based on the behavior that Variation Random state is accidently assigned the Initial Seed Random (bool), flag, true/false state instead of it's own (bool) variable

Of course we can simply type random numbers into the Variation Seed field and get the desired outcome of generating a unique alteration of the initial image but having to manually type numbers in defeats the purpose of having a random number generator.

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YES!! I can confirm that it is working as expected. Thank you! You and your git team are awesome!

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