What a beautiful image. This does sound like a lot of work, trial and error but the outcome I see here makes it very worth while. I don't have that plugin but am thinking this would work if I were to take the bmp of one of my fractals into bryce and apply it as material preset. hmm.... i wish there were more hours in the day! Thank you for the further explanations eppesart. Course, I do realize that I won't be able to generate those awesome 3D fractals like above :)