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  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkGaussianRandomSequence.h

  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
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/**
 * @class   vtkGaussianRandomSequence
 * @brief   Gaussian sequence of pseudo random numbers
 *
 * vtkGaussianRandomSequence is a sequence of pseudo random numbers
 * distributed according to the Gaussian/normal distribution (mean=0 and
 * standard deviation=1)
 *
 * This is just an interface.
*/

#ifndef vtkGaussianRandomSequence_h
#define vtkGaussianRandomSequence_h

#include "vtkCommonCoreModule.h" // For export macro
#include "vtkRandomSequence.h"

class VTKCOMMONCORE_EXPORT vtkGaussianRandomSequence : public vtkRandomSequence
{
public:
  vtkTypeMacro(vtkGaussianRandomSequence,vtkRandomSequence);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent) override;

  /**
   * Convenient method to return a value given the mean and standard deviation
   * of the Gaussian distribution from the the Gaussian distribution of mean=0
   * and standard deviation=1.0. There is an initial implementation that can
   * be overridden by a subclass.
   */
  virtual double GetScaledValue(double mean,
                                double standardDeviation);

protected:
  vtkGaussianRandomSequence();
  ~vtkGaussianRandomSequence() override;
private:
  vtkGaussianRandomSequence(const vtkGaussianRandomSequence&) = delete;
  void operator=(const vtkGaussianRandomSequence&) = delete;
};

#endif // #ifndef vtkGaussianRandomSequence_h
