Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Kenneth wrote:
> > I've run into an interesting and totally unexpected situation in v3.6.1 while
> > animating, trying to produce some random values from frame to frame. I'm seeing
> > repeating patterns in the values; nothing that I try eliminates them.
>
> No, because so is the nature of a simple random number generator.
>

Alas, so it seems. It's interesting that, when using only one seed() value--as
in a still image--rand() has no problem producing endlessly varying values from
it. (I've never *noticed* a pattern.)  So rand() itself isn't the problem,
AFAIK.

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