This bring back memories of Apophysis

I love the look of flame fractals, but I never figured out how to tweak things to get them to look more like how I want. I could never predict what a particular change would do to the look, or which change is needed to get a particular look.

I tried Apophysis (or one of the many spinoffs), but it never quite clicked.

Cool. If you want to try rendering some flame fractals, you can try our Fractal software Chaotica (https://www.chaoticafractals.com/) which was used to make the first image in the linked post (Vorpol Dawn By technochroma).

We didn't exactly use compute shaders for Chaotica, we used OpenCL instead, which is a more general GPGPU framework like CUDA.

Fractal flames is such a cool algorithm. They're what got me into programming many moons ago :)