Implemented a double helix #DistanceEstimate based on an idea from #FragM's `Knot.frag` (not knighty's, the other one, based on forum posts by DarkBeam).

Not sure how to #fractal-ize it, wanted to turn it into a #helix of helices of helices etc. Nor how to make it a single helix (I only managed to colour the two halves individually...).

I think each strand is an Archimedean Serpentine, but I'm not 100% sure on terminology..

```
#version 330 compatibility

#define providesColor
#include "MathUtils.frag"
#include "Complex.frag"
#include "DE-Raytracer.frag"

#group Helix

uniform float HelixD; slider[0.0,2.0,10.0]
uniform float HelixR; slider[0.0,1.0,10.0]
uniform float Helixr; slider[0.0,0.5,10.0]

uniform float time;

float DE(vec3 q)
{
q.z += HelixD * time;
float t = (mod(q.z / HelixD + 0.5, 1.0) - 0.5) * 2.0 * PI;
q.xy *= mat2(cos(t), sin(t), -sin(t), cos(t));
q.z = 0;
float s = atan(HelixD / (2.0 * PI), HelixR);
q.yz *= mat2(cos(s), -sin(s), sin(s), cos(s));
return length(vec2(length(q.xy) - HelixR, q.z)) - Helixr;
}

vec3 baseColor(vec3 q, vec3 n)
{
q.z += HelixD * time;
float t = (mod(q.z / HelixD + 0.5, 1.0) - 0.5) * 2.0 * PI;
q.xy *= mat2(cos(t), sin(t), -sin(t), cos(t));
return vec3(0.5) + 0.5 * sign(q.x) * n;
}
```

#OpenGL #GLSL #shader #ThreeD #Fragmentarium

#Magnet #Mandelbrot set #fractal mashed up with #ThreeD #Triplex algebra (a la #Mandelbulb) rendered with #DualNumber #DistanceEstimation in #FragM fork of #Fragmentarium

My highly over-engineered extravagant framework of shaders including each other multiple times with different things defined (to emulate C++ templates with #GLSL function overloading without polymorphism) takes significantly longer to link the #shader than it does to render the #animation.

First attempts with typos gave 100k lines of cascaded errors in the shader info log, which which the Qt GUI list widget was Not Happy At All. Luckily the log went to stdout too, so I could pipe to a file and see the start where I missed a return statement or two.