Cycles_path_guiding tests

Another setup: Cave with vector displacement and two openings through which a light beam enters and exits without touching the walls: All light is indirect through volumetric scattering.
NoPG:

PG diffuse product (cause no glossy materials):

Killing the scattering volume and using volumetric emission to model the light beam allows for direct light sampling and speeds up converging substantially:

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