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4 Oct 2024 13:08:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Not always the same render results??  
From: Steve
Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:33:25
Message: <3712082C.75A6F660@ndirect.co.uk>
Post the code here and let a few of us try rendering it and
report our results back to the group.

Steve

Julius Klatte wrote:
> 
> Strange...
> I always thought that POV-ray's rendered images were always
> exactly the same for the same code, like with 'normal'(?)
> instructions.
> 
> Example: if you calculate tan 1 with a calculator, you
> always
> get the same result: 1.55740772465490223050697480745836(...)
> 
> However, it appears this doesn't work this way for POV-ray
> image output (?).
> I've rendered the same POV code more than once on the same
> computer without using any jittering or crand or any other
> random
> function that I know of. The results were slightly
> different, as
> you can see in the attached image (that's why I posted it in
> this group)
> (close-ups of the rendered images).
> Can anybody tell me why the output is different?
> 
> Just wondering...
> 
> Julius
> 
>  [Image]


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