A little explanation on the making of the image.  I tried Bryce only first.  Bryce metaballs can create a really cool braking wave but adding detail is impossible as far as I can determine.  Metaballs want to reach out and absorb anything close to them.  They don't like each other when matting them with volumetrics either, so I resorted to creating a really primitive wave in Wings.  The Wings wave can be seen in the original thread.

It was imported into Bryce.  Lots of experimentation.  There are actually two waves with different mats embedded in each other and transparencies adjusted, both with mats I created in dte. 

There a 97 terrains and about 12 spheres added to the image. 

This forum image is the Bryce render with no AA.  You can see the artifacts I post worked out.  I used the rubber stamp brush to post work the image so I could feel it was still Bryce generated.  I blurred a couple small parts and added the signature.