It looks to me like there are more white points in the image as we increase the number of bounces. Is this just noise? Why is this happening?
ndiamant
@rbunny those are known as fireflies, they are from very unlikely but very bright samples, probably going through the glass into the sun. They can be very annoying when rendering! I know blender cycles renderer has some settings to cull samples with too much brightness, to reduce fireflies, although of course this technically makes your render less accurate.
enzyme
Tbh I liked some of the earlier images better because the contrast was more striking. But it's true that having a greater recursion depth makes the image brighter and probably more faithful to real life.
It looks to me like there are more white points in the image as we increase the number of bounces. Is this just noise? Why is this happening?
@rbunny those are known as fireflies, they are from very unlikely but very bright samples, probably going through the glass into the sun. They can be very annoying when rendering! I know blender cycles renderer has some settings to cull samples with too much brightness, to reduce fireflies, although of course this technically makes your render less accurate.
Tbh I liked some of the earlier images better because the contrast was more striking. But it's true that having a greater recursion depth makes the image brighter and probably more faithful to real life.