POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.competition : wrapping it up (again) : Re: wrapping it up (again) Server Time
4 May 2024 21:14:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: wrapping it up (again)  
From: Jeremy M  Praay
Date: 19 Jan 2005 15:47:18
Message: <41eec756$1@news.povray.org>
"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote in message 
news:41edc6b2$1@news.povray.org...
>> I'm assuming that this is because radiosity uses some sort of random
> numbers
>> in the generation of the data.  If that's the case, it might be a nifty
>> feature if the user could supply a "radiosity_seed Float" to ensure that
> it
>> used the same random seed.
>
> Having the same random seed wouldn't mean you have the same data that was
> calculated in the first rendering. To get that, you'd have to rerender 
> from
> scratch (using the seed) - which defeats the purpose.
>


Oops.  Got it.  That severely limits the usefulness of my suggestion.

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Jeremy
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