>>> Now change it to glass beads.
>>
>> I did try it with mirror beads... doesn't actually look all that good.
>
> I meant red tinted glass. Though that would change your render time to a
> couple more years. Though you wouldn't need the radiosity, so you may
> yet be able to render it in 2 weeks. :)
>
> A fly-around camera would also be nice :)

Heh. My PC is currently rendering the next animation in the sequence. 
(Cyan beads in a Cornell box, following an epicycloid path.)

One surprising thing is that the rippling water doesn't cast caustics on 
the sea floor. Then again, I guess the entire sky is more or less 
uniformly bright, so...

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