OK, so this render is taking forever and now it's halfway done, there's 
a bug!

I'm sure I'm not the first to note this, but I've applied a focal blur. 
Thus the buildings in the background are slightly out of focus and the 
orb in the foreground is *in* focus. However, the buildings reflected in 
it are further away from the camera (actually closer as the crow flies, 
but further as the ray flies). But nonetheless, in the reflection, 
they're *in* focus because the orb is in focus!

Is there any way to fix that??

(BTW: I built a macro to create the skyscrapers and put it on random 
settings to get all the buildings. Happy to part with the source if 
anyone wants it..)

ALSO, I couldn't build the orb out of blobs and have it look right, and 
I have no idea how to make an isosurface such as this. Maybe I need a 
mesh, but once again I have no idea. The smaller photo contains the 
object I'm trying to draw... if anyone can offer suggestions I'd be, as 
always, grateful.

Cheers and Thanks!
Rick Measham

P.S. I can't remember where I got the picture from! Gak! If anyone 
recognises it, please yell out!

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