This is made from multi-replicating metaballs in Bryce to form a curve, grouping them, and multi-replicating that into a bowl shape. Which takes more than a few tries to get just right.

What's in your future? A nice addition to the Onyx table series.

A little color waiting for the call to brighten a dreary day.

This one has a lot of hours invested. 48 of which were waiting for it to render. I shouldnt try for so much detail during such a busy time of year.

Bryce 5 handles complex models like this grass slower than Bryce 4, but the addition of the 'depth of field' more than makes up for it.
This is one of my more popular images. The grass in the foreground was even used on a Canadian postage stamp.

Get out from behind the eight ball, put it in front of you, on your desktop.

Non-objective multiple multi-rotation calculations with morphing metaballs using Bryce 5.1

Bryce 5's trees refused to work the way I wanted, so I used complex models in the solid glass spheres instead. This turned out to be a mistake. Due to the intense reflection depth rendering, this took a week to render.

Bryce 5 has meta-balls that can create amorphic shapes like these bubbles.  (Dolphins do blow bubble rings.)