Warp wrote:
> 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.

Hm, I seem to recall that I once rerendered an image that I made with 
POV 3.1 and rendering it now looks different. But maybe I changed 
something else as well, thus mixing up the stream...

>> 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.

Yup, just need to make sure that you'll actually get the same numbers 
even at a later point. ;-)

Regards,
Tim

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