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From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Byte's fern postscript program
Summary: Seeding a random number sequence
Message-ID: <21457@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 2 Nov 90 06:58:27 GMT
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> But it *does* move the Current Point.
 
Somewhat misleading.  newpath sets the current point to undefined.
 
What is happening is that the "1 1" before the loop functions
as a seed.  The loop transforms this coordinate randomly to
come up with a new coordinate pair.  You can see this by doing
a pstack after each iteration.
 
Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)