"Amazing. This is what was missing from the dig at Giza. This is how they controlled it. It took us 15 years and 3 supercomputers to MacGyver a system for the gate on Earth. Look how small it is!"

-- Capt. Carter, from Stargate

What I did:

 
So here's @welshpixie's Pong, 014 "Ferngears":

First thing I did was just tweak a bit without changing any of the formulae...:

But nothing much turned up, wasn't feeling inspired, so I swapped out FernTransform for "transform2IFS" :

It didn't look very promising but I tweaked away and got nothing ;P ... So then I tried changing the formulae order, and also adding another formulae, a second gear2IFS:

I wasn't expecting much and thought I'd change the second gear2IFS soon... Until I started tweaking! :

Sadly I didn't save screenshots of the most interesting parts... All the parameter tweaking I did to arrive at this point:

That is the pre-render (960x960) .. I was so enthused that I immediately rendered the big image without first testing further with light/reflections/textures, etc, so when I had to settle for the final result as you see it, even though I'm not 100% happy with it. Here is the texture I used:

Anyway, all in all, its not too bad =) I'm looking forward to seeing what else transform2IFS can do with other formulae...

Here are the parameters:

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z.EnAnQD12..3..........wz.................................U0.....y1...sD...../..
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.....................2.....3....A....QKNV7bA7NoI................................
.sU1....0....................s1EnAnAnAngV.2........xzoAnAnAnAHyjaNaNaNaN2.InAnAn
AnAwz.........zD........S/YaNaNaNaNqzcNaNaNaNawD........C/YaNaNaNaNiz...........
................................/....E/....1....bJKMm7HG4B3.....................
............Cs....U.....................y.2aNaNaNatwz........I.kcNaNaNaNaz9oAnAn
AnAvz0.......g.E..................UL./........6DmAnAnAnAHz1.......UH.dNaNaNaNavD
..........................................E.....I....Y.....Rm3aPnNqPmpaA7NoI....
.........................MU/46U.0.........UaNaNaNaNozcNaNaNaNawj................
..cB./.......O2E......Eb2/2...................zD..................kD./..........
........................................................}
{Titel: newpong17big}

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