You people are fantastic.

You can do an internet search for 3d & "3D studio max" & "Perfect Storm" to get that tutorial for creating the wave - I gave it yesterday but it doesn't seem to be all there, when I did the search to find it there were other tutorials as well that came up in the search, - just FYI. Plus you people keep talking 'magnets' assuming that people have Poser ---

http://boriz.stormloader.com/perfect_strorm.html

If you have Blender (www.blender.nl) you can create a lattice or plane in Bryce and export to a .DXF file. Import into Blender and then sub-divide the vertices and add your noise and whatever else you want to do to your wave. Then export to a .DXF file again and then import into Bryce. That's just the mesh part... To recreate that photo is gonna be a ton o' work :) unless you have 3D Studio Max in which there are tutorials on the .net to recreate waves like in the movie Perfect Storm.

You can also download Blender which is free, yes FREE... www.blender.nl

Ok, you lost me on the last one

I see where you are going here. I can link the animation of the 2d plane to the pen, so when the pen moves the plane moves. gonna go try it

just a thought, what about creating several cubes which are scattered and rotated to create differing reflections and with a high reflective material and use the illusion of reflection to create multiple trees? it's about illusion.

Once again, I am sorry again. :(

I was only tryin' to help. Sorry for my input.

You can also use 3D Studio Max if you have it. Creating two cylinders, grouping them and then stretch and twist. You have more control over the number of polygons by setting the number of sides for the cylinder which will give you your smoothness. Just my two cents.