POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: problem: repeating rand patterns using seed in animation: Re: problem: repeating rand patterns using seed in animation

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From: clipka
Date: 24 Jan 2009 14:40:01
Message: <web.497b6e3ab528db0d44fa40c50@news.povray.org>

"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> 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.

So how about, at the end of any animation, pull one more rand() value to seed()
the next run?

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