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Interestingly these same sorts of visual patterns can be found when generating samples using poor pseudo random numbers like C rand() function. When using C++ mersenne twister algorithm the obvious coherency patterns go away.


That's what the pattern reminded me of too.

More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_test




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