Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
In audio land, you can count on Pd to give you the exact same stream of numbers for the same operations (i.e. determinism). I don't know enough about OpenGL to know if you can count on it to give you the exact same stream of numbers for a given set of operations.
short answer: no
http://www.google.com/search?q=opengl+invariance
If so, you can render a reference image, then to test, make a render image, then check it against the reference.
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