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ok I know it's what everyone does when they first use a 3d program but I do love me some greebling, for ages I was too thick to make a mesh made of enough quads to use discombobulator succesfully in blender 2.49 but thanks to Jonathan Blendercookies wonderful 'make a clean hole in a ball tutorial' I discovered the converting a cube into a sphere using subdiv and 'to sphere' -

pathtracing, 1486 samples, maxdepth 2048

some slight contrast increasing and optikverve virtual photographer plugin set to 'ambience' done post render:

Pretty cool

here is an animation of it done @ 800x600 for some strange reason - Direct Lighting 128 samples:

http://vimeo.com/20174964

nice!