@ PJF: The Angus Mckie painting has always been in my mind for years, and has always been one I've always wanted to do, but my own version, not a direct copy. This shall be my humble attempt. I think the artist in Renderosity you saw may be scarab1. A search for "shipwreck" will show his interpretation.

@ Pakled and dvlenk6: I think that is good advice, to greeble the visible parts. I shall do that.

@ Alexclark: The box view option is on... but the challenge is when replicating or doing copy/paste of the greebled ring.... takes 10 min in Bryce 5 to paste, 5 min in Bryce 6 on a dual core with 2 gigs RAM. I didn't wait for the replicate function to finish just doing three of them. It took more than an hour to save 4 of them rings. Need 20 of them.

I used my favorite CAD program to make the rings, well actually a single panel of the ring. The outer ring is made of several arcs. The diameter is nearly a mile.