Another brutal tweak, and my first dabble with the whole Hypertile thing, something I've wanted to get my teeth into since it first came out. Not really a serious flame, I just wanted something to show for it right away
Original parametres from The Law Of Averages ([link]) by *cyberxaos
Apophysis 7X + GIMP for tone adjustment, framing and signature.
Definitely try the hypertile plugin, it's a bit hard to figure out at first (which is why I've decided to go for a tweak) but the results can be stunning! The fine mesh-y texture on the "pasta" is actually given by the "rectangles" variation with very low variable values (0.05 if I remember right, maybe even less). The hypertile dictates the pattern of both the "pasta" and the "urchin" shapes instead.
Is the texture on the "pasta" the hypertiling?
(NNTR