Blur items inside/behind glass

Support Compositing and Post Processing
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I have been trying to figure this out, tried searching but could not find a solution.

How do I blur an object (or light) that is behind a glass?

I have attached a blend file, with a glass cube, and a cylindrical object (with emission surface) that is inserted through the glass cube. I wanted the cylindrical tube to be blurred, including the image that is transmitted through the glass.


How can that be done? Please feel free to edit the attached blend file.

Attachments

problem glass_blur.blend (592 KB)

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I turned off the cylinder’s Transmission and Glossy “ray visibility”, but it gave me this:

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I still want the refracted and reflected images of the cylinder, but I need them blurred as well.

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What do you exactly want to do? what effect are you expecting?

For example, you can separate more passes and combine it adding some blur effect. But that’s not really good… it looks fake and it will always look more or less fake doing it that way.

problem glass_blur_compo.png1114×538 126 KB

But you can do it directly in the shader increasing the roughness of the glass node.

problem glass_blur_shading.png565×575 117 KB

Is it what you’re looking for?

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Or maybe something like that?

problem glass_blur_compo2.png1284×606 132 KB

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Thank you very much VincentG!

I was trying to blur only the red tube’s refraction and reflection image inside the “clear” glass cube. Adding roughness to the glass cube’s material will not work.

I would say your first solution works perfectly fine! As it deals directly with the glass glossy reflections, and glass transmission (refraction) rays.

Thank you again!