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I'm looking for a word that roughly means "changing values of a set, but not order". I have been wrongly using "Permutation" or "Permutate", but that means changing the order of a collection, not the values if I'm correct. I'm writing a program that, each loop, changes the values of a collection (according to some rules) and renders the resulting image. What would that action be called?

Example:

[1.2, 2.3, 0, 1] -> [1.2, 2.5, 1, 0]

Sample Sentence:

"Each loop, the collection of parameters is xxx and a new image is rendered"

I've tried looking here using "change value of" but haven't really found anything satisfactory. A single word is what I'm looking for...I really hope there is one.

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    Are the new values calculated from the previous values? If so I'd call that "transformation".
    – nnnnnn
    Feb 13, 2020 at 3:38
  • If not, "insertion", since they come from somewhere else.
    – John Lawler
    Feb 13, 2020 at 4:11
  • @nnnnnn not really, I randomize them now. But they don't necessarily have to be randomized...
    – Zorobay
    Feb 13, 2020 at 4:44
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    Permute is to swap positions; transmute is to change in place. Maybe.
    – Tinfoil Hat
    Feb 13, 2020 at 5:00
  • in your example how can we tell that you’ve changed the third one to 1 and the fourth one to zero and not swapped the order?
    – Jim
    Feb 13, 2020 at 5:22

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"Set" normally implies unordered collections.

The parameters are used to apply or map a transformation/function over the values. If the original value is changed, rather than a new one produced, it is mutated.

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  • You're right about that. I just used the word to mean a collection of N numbers. Mutated isn't bad...
    – Zorobay
    Feb 13, 2020 at 6:54

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