Futurescape | DIFS pong with @Mandelsage - 004

Head over to @mandelsage 's post at https://steemit.com/art/@mandelsage/pentanonoclus-or-difs-pong-with-welshpixie-001 to read more detail about what a dIFS pong is, but in a nutshell, two people 'ping-pong' a fractal made only from dIFS formulae back and forth, changing it very slightly each time. It's great practice at navigating and creating fractal images, and produces pretty pictures!

View @mandelsage's reply to my #002 here -> https://steemit.com/art/@mandelsage/caldera-or-difs-pong-with-welshpixie-003

He didn't change the formula from my previous one, so since they hadn't been changed since the first fractal, I figured I'd swap one out to bring something new into the equation and then see what I could find to render out.

I switched the PenN-gonIFS formula for Seashell, and then started playing.

Initial results weren't promising, but I kept tweaking and playing with the camera angles, and suddenly this pattern popped out that reminded me of a cityscape. Definitely something I could play with!

After some adjustments to the lighting and cycling through a few diffuse colour maps, I settled on this, and just added in a reflection to make the walls look metallic and glossy.

If you'd like to tweak this fractal, here are the parameters to load into Mandelbulb3D;

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