I think I'm going to stick with this idea for the IRTC.

 Thomas, you'd make a good detective as you were really close with what I 
was doing. :)

Anyway, it 'is' a grain of sand. I found a great site when looking for 
images of a single grain of sand which is here:

  http://www.sandgrains.com/fine_art_prints.htm

 These grains are quite exotic and unusual in that they are Maui sand grains 
magnified at 200x, which, as you'll see, are made from various sea-life 
forms. With this image, I've tried to recreate the blue translucency of the 
snailshell images, but used my own model inside the grain. I think it's kind 
of working, but I've got to get the natural inclusions a lot better.

  (I think I'll try the Brittlestar idea too).

  Hope you like it, comments welcome.


   ~Steve~

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