Sven Littkowski <jam### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Yes, I was thinking about involving time into it, too. But then again,
> two different computers and rendering at the same time - will lead again
> to the same result. So, while POV-Ray gives us a pseudo random, you give
> us now a pseudo pseudo random.
>
> But don't get me wrong - I was about to have it done the same way. And
> it is a good idea.
>
> If you want to go that way further, and want to work towards the third
> pseudo, you could also involve computer specs to the time-depending
> random. And also things that change frequently on computers, like amount
> of free HDD space and size of random-selected files also being computed
> into the pseudo pseudo pseudo random.
>
> POV-Ray's random was intentionally meant to enable everyone to produce
> the same result. But taking your point, yes, it would be nice if POV-Ray
> 4.0 could supply us with a real random, too. :-)

Hi Sven !

Thanks for your funny message !
What you wrote, that there is a reason why we get pseudo-random to produce same


But !!!!! Yeeess...the must be a BUT !

I like to make pics using random numbers to see different results, and take the
best (what I think what the best is).
So I think both options are very useful.
And 2 Computers produces the same results when they start rendering the same
time...yes...when they have exactly the same time...down to
microseconds...yes...there is always a limit for us.
And you have really great ideas to get more better
pseudo-pseudo-pseudo-pseudo-numbers using files and HDD space. Thanks for it !!!

Bye
Flynn :-)

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