=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=E9r=F4me_M=2E_Berger=22?= <jeb### [at] freefr> wrote:
>  There is a very common use case that you have forgotten: to be able
> to save the state of the random generator so that you can pick up
> from the same point later (in a subsequent animation frame for
> example). This requires two things:
> - A function that returns the current state of the generator;
> - The ability to initialize the generator with this state.
>
>  In that case, the seed may take the whole range of values supported
> by the algorithm.

Obviously it's not so common in the POV-Ray world :P

Anyway, if there would be intention to implement such a thing in POV-Ray SDL,
there would be no need for a "user-friendly" notation. So e.g. a base64-encoded
string of the raw state data would do as fine as any other notation.

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