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Re:POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer by eru on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @05:43AM (#40644321)
Pedantic nitpick: you are most likely talking about a different 'colour' of noise. White noise is really harsh, and probably not what your fan produces.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise

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Re:POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer by LoganDark on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @02:14PM (#40661147)
I couldn't remember the color (brown noise?) so white noise was the best thing I could come up with.
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Re:POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer by eru on Thursday June 13, 2024 @01:11AM (#40666167)
No worries. When speaking colloquially, 'white noise' is a perfectly fine term and perfectly understandable.
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