At 0 roughness, the Maxwell CPU rendering looks far more realistic than the Indigo CPU one, based on my experience looking at lit glass/acrylic sculptures. There is more detail present and the low contrast gradations look far more realistic. I see lots of blown-out highlights in the Indigo CPU versi...

Silverwing wrote: Tha´s the Maxwell result:

Dragon_Maxwell_01.jpg

Wow, the Maxwell dragon looks much more realistic at this longer render time. I wonder how the clear glass dragon would look given more time. I have a feeling that the Maxwell dragon would look best in this case as well.

Hi there, very nice to see my tests being discussed here. Hi Silverwing, I would like to further explore the differences between the Maxwell and Indigo rendered versions of the transparent version of the dragon from http://www.silverwing-vfx.de/Download/Convergence_Test/Dragon_02.jpg . Would it be ...

Comparing the quality of the Maxwell and Indigo renders based on the transparent dragon image (the left-most one at http://www.silverwing-vfx.de/Download/Convergence_Test/Dragon_02.jpg ), it appears that Indigo is blowing out the highlights. I don't know if this is because Indigo has a more limited ...