Quote - The glass and lighting gave me so many problems with this one.  I finally gave up and just left the noise from the glass. 

Interesting concept. Also in this case the noise is probably caused by the difficulty of tracing a path for the light. If you provide a bit of additional light, like a side light, you might end up with much faster rendering and less noise.

Cheers.

Paolo

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