* Use the *Random Number generator class* (:rng:`RNG <>`) and how to get a random number from a uniform distribution.
* Display Text on an OpenCV window by using the function :put_text:`putText <>`
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* In the previous tutorial we drew diverse geometric figures, giving as input parameters such as coordinates (in the form of :point:`Points <>`), color, thickness, etc. You might have noticed that we gave specific values for these arguments.
* In this tutorial, we intend to use *random* values for the drawing parameters. Also, we intend to populate our image with a big number of geometric figures. Since we will be initializing them in a random fashion, this process will be automatic and made by using *loops*
* This code is in your OpenCV sample folder. Otherwise you can grab it from `here <https://code.ros.org/svn/opencv/trunk/opencv/samples/cpp/tutorial_code/Basic/Drawing_2.cpp>`_
* The *for* loop will repeat **NUMBER** times. Since the function :line:`line <>` is inside this loop, that means that **NUMBER** lines will be generated.
* The line extremes are given by *pt1* and *pt2*. For *pt1* we can see that:
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pt1.x = rng.uniform( x_1, x_2 );
pt1.y = rng.uniform( y_1, y_2 );
* We know that **rng** is a *Random number generator* object. In the code above we are calling **rng.uniform(a,b)**. This generates a radombly uniformed distribution between the values **a** and **b** (inclusive in **a**, exclusive in **b**).
* From the explanation above, we deduce that the extremes *pt1* and *pt2* will be random values, so the lines positions will be quite impredictable, giving a nice visual effect (check out the Result section below).
* As another observation, we notice that in the :line:`line <>` arguments, for the *color* input we enter:
As we can see, the return value is an *Scalar* with 3 randomly initialized values, which are used as the *R*, *G* and *B* parameters for the line color. Hence, the color of the lines will be random too!
#. The explanation above applies for the other functions generating circles, ellipses, polygones, etc. The parameters such as *center* and *vertices* are also generated randomly.
#. Before finishing, we also should take a look at the functions *Display_Random_Text* and *Displaying_Big_End*, since they both have a few interesting features:
#.**Display_Random_Text:**
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int Displaying_Random_Text( Mat image, char* window_name, RNG rng )
{
int lineType = 8;
for ( int i = 1; i < NUMBER; i++ )
{
Point org;
org.x = rng.uniform(x_1, x_2);
org.y = rng.uniform(y_1, y_2);
putText( image, "Testing text rendering", org, rng.uniform(0,8),
Besides the function **getTextSize** (which gets the size of the argument text), the new operation we can observe is inside the *foor* loop:
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image2 = image - Scalar::all(i)
So, **image2** is the substraction of **image** and **Scalar::all(i)**. In fact, what happens here is that every pixel of **image2** will be the result of substracting every pixel of **image** minus the value of **i** (remember that for each pixel we are considering three values such as R, G and B, so each of them will be affected)
Also remember that the substraction operation *always* performs internally a **saturate** operation, which means that the result obtained will always be inside the allowed range (no negative and between 0 and 255 for our example).
