There has been a long discussion about the respective merits of modern replacements for the twister, such as PCG [1][2][3] IMO, for monte-carlo type stuff (lik

There has been a long discussion about the respective merits of modern replacements for the twister, such as PCG [1][2][3] IMO, for monte-carlo type stuff (like your path tracer), PCG is good enough. Here's another discussion: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/337927/is-pcg-random-number-generator-as-good-as-claimed https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/337927/is-pcg-rand... [1] https://prng.di.unimi.it/ https://prng.di.unimi.it/ [2] https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html [3] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/04/29/reinventing-rng/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/04/29/reinventing-rng/