Here is a simple example of metaballs in action. The rubber duck here was built using metaballs. The eye sockets were made using negative metaballs.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy