POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Real Random Numbers : Re: Real Random Numbers Server Time
16 May 2024 15:16:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Real Random Numbers  
From: Sven Littkowski
Date: 25 Jan 2016 21:56:59
Message: <56a6e07b@news.povray.org>
Yes, I was thinking about involving time into it, too. But then again,
two different computers and rendering at the same time - will lead again
to the same result. So, while POV-Ray gives us a pseudo random, you give
us now a pseudo pseudo random.

But don't get me wrong - I was about to have it done the same way. And
it is a good idea.

If you want to go that way further, and want to work towards the third
pseudo, you could also involve computer specs to the time-depending
random. And also things that change frequently on computers, like amount
of free HDD space and size of random-selected files also being computed
into the pseudo pseudo pseudo random.

POV-Ray's random was intentionally meant to enable everyone to produce
the same result. But taking your point, yes, it would be nice if POV-Ray
4.0 could supply us with a real random, too. :-)


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