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  Re: Can someone research a stupid bug report for me?  
From: Warp
Date: 19 Sep 2007 04:32:20
Message: <46f0de94@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson <pte### [at] thecommononethatstartswithycom> wrote:
> If the phenomenon I observed is valid, then it could be helpful to have an
> less-predictable value by setting the seed based on something that varies
> wildly as a function of frame_number: I was using cos & sin.

  What do you mean by "less predictable"?

  From any value returned by the random number generator it's possible
to predict the next values. POV-Ray's RNG uses a very simple algorithm.

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                                                          - Warp


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