Here's a 3D background made in Photoshop. This method will give you a shiny, plastic-bumpy-looking image like a plexiglass shower door.
1) Select two colors for foreground and background, higher saturation values will give shinier results.
2) Under filters, select render clouds. The pattern rendered will always be random and never the same twice.
3) Again under filters select displacement and choose a displacement map. Honeycomb is ok.
4) Crop the area you like best and viola, your done.
You can map the image onto spheres or other 3D objects or use as a background.
I used some such images as images for a Java graphics applet called "wobbler," for some really wild effects.
Wobbler effects.
Oh yeah, the image below isn't cleaninly tiling although you might tweak such an image and make it so. But the good part is that that creates another effect whereby the page seems to be uneven and protruding outward towards the viewer.
buddycom [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]
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