A magnet, eh? Very clever use of the magnet. I was tinkering with metaballs trying to do that, and came up with an oddity. I noticed that my transparent positive metaball and my transparent negative metaball actually created a visible "glow" where they interact. It might be a different way to make comets and such. My leaf was made completely in Bryce. I photographed a leaf, and made a mask in Photoshop. I took the mask and created a terrain from it. Then, I made a simple gradient (dark to light to dark) in Photoshop. I applied the gradient to the second picture slot in the Terran Editor, and blended them so I ended up with a curved leaf shaped terrain. (The jagginess that Erlik saw is the terrain, not the material) The terrain was solid (I couldn't figure out how to make it not solid and leaf shaped, I think that's due to the edges, but I'm not sure) so I made another negative terrain with the leaf mask, but I widened the mask a bit in Photoshop so I'd get all the edges. Then I applied a grayscale version of the leaf photo for the texture. I tweaked the photo a bit to get the bump map, and also added a procedural bump as well. With this method I was able to get all different shapes of leaves with different curls right in Bryce 4. I also had success with making a terrain and making the leaf only with textures and transmaps, but it was less convincing, and it was something of a pain to work with in wire frame. Well, the cats out of the bag now. I'm going to go play with magnets. Great exercise afr!