Chapter 2: Rendering with mental ray for the bees, so the more bees there are, the less food for each bee. The bee then transfers that pollen to other flowers, and so on. If the honeybee flies only from red flowers to red flowers, then all the flowers remain red. However, if that bee picks up pollen from a red flower and transfers it to a white flower, the result, eventually, will be a pink flower. After a while, the honeybee runs out of energy and is done for the day. What does the honeybee have to do with global illumination? Well, the analogy is fairly instructive in learning how the global illumina- tion process functions. In 3ds Max a light source can represent the hive; and photons, particles of light, can represent the bees. The surfaces in your 3ds Max scene are similar to the flowers. Figure 2.35 When you return the antialiasing slider back to the default, the rendering now looks much more convincing.