The point about the SOW is that it has been said that everyone, when they first get their hands on Bryce - immediately they stick a shiny sphere over a water plane and press render.

S.O.W. = Sphere Over Water.

The trick however is to create something that is undeniably "a sphere", pretty much "over, under or through, water"  (or some surface with some sort of reflection) but to do something a bit different with it before pressing the render button.

So I was thinking, how about everybody trying to come up with some sort of twist on the S.O.W.?

Not compulsory, just have a play with it if you feel like it.

Here are a few examples:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1077757&member
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=976476&member

And it doesn't have to be exactly a sphere, here someone has taken the SOW concept and using metaballs, come up with this:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=672033

And...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=503015

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