This tutorials is a continuation of the cool abstract tutorials.

This tutorials will show you how to make a cool abstract image. This one takes a little bit of time but it is worth the end effect.

Start out my resetting your Max window. Then take the geosphere object

and use it to make a nice little ball in your perspective view.

Then to the right in the Geosphere menu uncheck the smooth option, and after you do that you should get an image like the one below.

Now we are going to right click on the image with the normal move cursor so it puts up a menu Then go to convert> convert to editable patch, like seen in the page below

 

Now right click again and choose extrude patch, like seen in the image below

Now click somewhere on the image, then after you click on it move your cursor over the spot in witch you clicked and a new cursor object will appear Wen it does keep your mouse over that stop, left click and drag it out, This should allow you to pull each individual piece of the geoshpere out.

Now here is the hard part, try to pull out almost every section of the geosphere until you get it to look like the image below

Now go to the noise filter and use the settings below

when you do that you should get a cool picture like the one below. It helps to experiment with the materials, I just used a plain one on the image below