Tim Nikias <JUS### [at] gmxnetware> wrote:
> Of course, since it's MegaPOV, the random-stream might be 
> different again, but if/once the Intel-Based POV-Ray for Mac gets 
> released, will the streams be identical?

  POV-Ray uses its own random number generator function (a linear
congruential generator, if you are interested; see wikipedia).
There's no reason why it would give different values in different
systems.

> You may argue that this question is purely scientific, when I use random 
> streams, I'm looking for random-input, so asking how determined it is 
> might be kinda stupid...

  No. Always getting the same stream of numbers every time is very useful
for many purposes.

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                                                          - Warp

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