POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.newusers: Will random sequence change in different environment?: Re: Will random sequence change in different environment?

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From: Alain
Date: 5 Jun 2016 14:08:00
Message: <57546a80@news.povray.org>


> Hello,
>
> Please let me make a question about the random stream of POV-Ray.
> Will it generate same sequence from same seed in other POV-Ray instance?
> I would like to know if my .povs make similar images in different OS or machine
> or version.
> Thank you very much.
>
>

In most cases, the result will be the same.
There may be some differences if the FP processor is different due to 
possible differences in how rounding and normalisation are done.

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