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You can at the cost of some light bounces.

Most modern render engines render rays from the camera into the scene. This speeds up rendering a lot but also means rendering caustics will need a huge amount of samples because the probability of seeing light from a camera through glass is very low. Bi-directional path tracing fixes some of these problems.

So it can be done but always at a cost (rendering times).

In Blender I have done this a couple of times and even used different IORs for the RGB colors to get real world results.