Sweet!

It seems to me a while back there was a thread on one of the lists about random number 
algorithms changing (fortunately rarely) between certain versions of...was it Director 
or the OS?  I can't remember.  I'll have to check the archives.  Obviously it could 
really screw this up if different flavors of Windoze or Macattack produced a different 
pseudo-random sequence from the same seed!

At 1816 -0600 3/15/2002, Howdy-Tzi wrote:
>OK, so I was kicking around a little for something to do.
>
>http://www.nightwares.com/beta/xOrPixel.dir
>...
>You might remember that since random numbers are algorithmically 
>derived, if you set up your randomSeed to a known value when you 
>begin (such as the h and w of an image!), you will get identical 
>"random" results on two runs, provided you run the random operations 
>in exactly the same way.
>...
>http://www.nightwares.com/beta/xOrPixel2.dir
>...
>             Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/
>...
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