This is the oldest render I still have on my harddrives/CDs. It was just a simple test in 3D Studio. I'm not sure what version. I think 3. That is, 3D Studio for DOS, not 3D Studio Max, people ;) You can see the stereotypical 3DS marble texture. Haha

A friend of mine had these chinese balls (you have to spin them in your hand or something), which had a oily look to them, and he asked me if I could recreate that in 3DS. Of course, I had to make a weird composition with floating balls etc. I remember I also had an animation (FLI) of them simply floating circles around the center ball.