"Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] anti-spamcomcastnet> wrote:
> > What you get with rand is a series of random numbers. Using the same
> > seed the series is always the same.
>
> That's an intentional design feature, if you place a bunch of objects
> randomly with a certain seed, the image should still be exactly
> reproducable on any machine running POV.

It's also of great practical use when making an animation--the seed() value,
being the same for every animation frame, produces the same rand() values per
frame.  If it didn't, there would be chaos!

Ken

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