St. wrote:
> 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.
Very cool.

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