Oh yeah baby, it's differential!

After a bit of warm-up with JWildFire, I regained my confidence; I designed this Rotor that can tap into power sources from multiple planes of existence, and convert the difference of their output into energy. Sure, it works fine, as you can see the central power outlet is charged up normally and ready to go!
(Everything made in JWildFire by me, no post-work at all. Details and process below.)

Multiplanar Differential Rotor

by @nyarlathotep

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Details:

Process:

I started with a "Julian" and 4 "Log" transformations, positioned above, below, left & right of the Julian shape; the central piece was given more weight (1 vs 0.5 of the 4 "logs") to make it more prominent.

One more transformation combining "loonie" & "idisc" added a nice twist to the boring original.

I added some background color to the lower part of the image and changed the lower transformation from a single "log" to a combination of "log" & "rays", with "rays" being 6 times more prominent than "log". Also, the scattered dots seemed like a nice touch (it's a variation named "sunflower"). Now, you can see the elongated mechanical gear-like shapes to the 3 directions (up, left, right) that triggered the Rotors in my imagination.

I wanted something more powerful for the central piece and tried out some variations until I settled with "sunvoronoi" instead of the previous simple curve.

For the final stages of refinement, I added a variation to each the 3 "logs" and combined them for a more complex effect. The bottom transformation was also changed to appear less abstract and more star-shaped. Well, the rotor shapes were gone at this stage, but their impression remained!


And here is the list of all the transformations and the variations used. I can post the .xml file too, if anyone cares to see it.