I am very interested in this technique, particularly the shader, but the tweets are down and I can't seem to replicate the effect with the screenshot...You can also try this. Looks pretty good.
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I think the Ray Length info node might have changed since then.
I'm sorry to call back to an old post, but are you still using the same technique? Any pointers in the newer versions of blender?