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I've pondered aspects of you discuss, but certainly not in the detail you have! As far as the brain goes, I have been working towards a similar type of thing. This has been off and on in my spare time as sort of a proof of concept type of thing, just to see if it can be done. I have several anatomy/autopsy books, with good side, top and bottom views of the brain. I scanned them in, converted to 8-bit greyscale, and then tediously modified them to be more of a bump map than just an image of a brain. At the time, I was just going to use them as bump maps, but I couldn't get a decent brain shaped mesh to start with, so I dropped it to ponder it more at my leisure. Later, after I got displace, the idea occured to me that I could try it there, with some modifications, and possibly come up with a decent brain. Not perfect, but good enough for my purposes. I have not done this yet as I have had more importants things to figure out, but I will get back to it eventually. Your suggestions certainly help. Thanks.