Many people went a bit frustrated on not getting anything “cool” from the new Amazing Surf 2 formula recently made by Luca, aka dark-beam ~dark-beam (https://www.deviantart.com/dark-beam) for Mandelbulb 3D.
If you haven't it in hand you can get it here: http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-3d/custom-formulas-and-transforms-release-t17106/
Here's a brief indication on how you can get nice patterns out of it without hair pulling :D
I've assumed that you already put on the first slot the Asurf2 formula.
So, let's change some values:
Scale= 1.325
Min R= 0.1
FoldXY= 0.25
Rotate1 X=0
Rotate1 Y=0
Rotate1 Z= 8
FoldFiddler=0
It would look something like this
An Amazing Surf 'Roots' How-To by LukasFractalizator, journal
An Amazing Surf 'Roots' How-To
Hello! I'm here to give you some tips while working with Amazing Surf formula! Before start to look, checkout Jorge's wonderful AMAZING SURF 2 tutorial over there ->
Okay. Let's Begin. Open Mandelbulb3D, and replace Integer by Amazing Surf. Zoom little bit out, and it should look like this:
Now change some values of formula:
Scale: 1.2
Min R: 0.1
Fold: 2.5
Rotation1 X: 13
Rotation1 Y: 9
Rotation1 Z: -20
Scale Vary: 0
Sphere or Cylinder: 0
When you zoom into center little bit, you may already see forming some little curls like this:
Now turn on Julia on and put these values:
X: 0.5
Y: -0.125
Z: 0
And we're done! For experi