What I did:

 
First things first, I loaded up @welshpixie's Pong 004 "Futurescape":

Then followed the frustration as described above... If I were to include all the screenshots I took, and the ones I didn't take when I started getting annoyed, you'd be scrolling for some time... Let these four suffice:

As I said, I swapped out Apollo2D-IFS for Apollo3D-IFS, and changed the order of the formulae. Once I caught sight of the first image above, I knew almost exactly what sort of thing I wanted. Then at last, the fun part, adding colour, for which I used this as a colour map:

If you are feeling inspired, copy these parameters and load them into Mandelbulb 3D using the "from clipboard" button and see what you can come up with =)

Mandelbulb3Dv18{
g....kO1...fB...A....2M...kAOiip4DC7.TYTx.9Tvq8ExueZGIM7H.ovWZFBtq76.Zf13AdHMezj
................................yLSHLmqTUz1........A.Rt8................y.YNaNyD
...Uz6....kZ..../M.0/.....kQ5...P/....E2.....671PNAUVBpD/MUvwp.E..Uy/dkpXo1....U
z.EnAnQD12..2..........wz.................................U0.....y1...sD...../..
.z1...sDtBPry3OotxHOstgVtiTRzm.q2YD4yJmDoGEyLcnKXxXVSEmnF87OzINLwC1JMsrD5AvZLdyj
nxf8MpIPKTfRz45Vyw6R.xqDU...U0oLB/..Ll/.......kD.6....sD..G.....................
.............oAnAt1...sD....zw1...................................E0bQFEA....k1.
.....OD8wz1.........txzzz1EV.I6.T/...w4....C....A/Qm2g1.k9EB....6/...cqy....SFT9
...U.W1KEOwlcichsU3Y2RAe906.2AqzzzSi..UI7TMmL4.k6o0FIhT67.2.QheMHIWlz0U.mwzzgr5.
.s41pmERLz9.H0/bvOorz.U59ywZYy.k/EU0.wzzz1...........M0........./.........E.2c..
zzzz............U/...................2./8.kzzzD............8....................
/EU0.wzzz1...................................2Hg8..E./2Elyk3Uy2../2E.pv5P.eU..2E
./2Qj......E./2EUt1....../2E.3VG......2E./oSJpEYZ/.E./2EA0q40e.../2E.hzOFoq2..2E
./Yfrh0nH/.E./2E...cU08czz/cU08cyz1cU08cxz3cU08c................................
E6...AE.W6E.....I....c....EEkx4PgxqA2pGG4B3..............................MU/46..
..........EnAnAnAnApzoAnAnAnA1yjyHBSdPGAoz1........0./.......0/k.......UH.2.....
...4.BoWgRyyd4vjqibwk0pOuyPCoWgRyydoz...........................................
.....................2.....3....D....AJNVB5OZl4P.kKG4B3.........................
.sU1.sU..MU/4............................z1........qz0..........................
..............xD........................................c.YNaNaNaNatzAnAnAnAnAwD
aNaNaNaNKz1........wz.........../....E/...E1....Wx4S7NoI.k4.jRLNm/..............
..............U1C....2U.02E.....BnAnAnAXU.InAnAnAnAzzoAnAnAnAnzDbNaNaNaNozHnAnAn
AnA/.fNaNaNaNc/knAnAnAnAN.A...................................................zD
........kzXNaNaNaNapz.........zD............}
{Titel: newpong05_big_shadows01_refl}

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