What I did:

 
... This week I had the same problem... No matter how much I tweaked and prodded, I couldn't find the darned stairs... As usual, I opened up @welshpixie's Pong, 012 "Stone Pyramids":

I then zoomed out as always, to get a better look at the fractal... Lots of cool little patterns worthy of exploration there, but as I said, I wanted stairs!:

And then followed the most frustrating tweak session ever... Here are just a few of the many examples I could have shown you. No matter how much I tweaked, I couldn't find the stairs and columns promised by the formulae helistairsIFS and columnsIDS! ..:

I then decided to go for the last resort: resetting all parameters of all formulae. Aha! :

But by the time I found this, (half an hour ago!) it was already getting late, so I instead went with something simpler to frame and execute... Thus, I give you, "Factory" =) ... I had to use two layers in Photoshop to get the pipes shiny without making everything shiny. Also deepened the contrast with some Curves adjustment and brighted the scene a bit.

But I'll definitely be playing around more with these formulae... It has been a while since I've done a new fine art piece and something Escher inspired is definitely calling to me...

As usual, here are the paramters, if you'd like to try it yourself:

Mandelbulb3Dv18{
g....U70...a6...A....2U...k8siVTlhqtzS9B4TTJuMyDmPDmTbHk/zH0XbW4m/TtzGevhpEKBEyj
................................cn4E4SqU3/2........A.xY7................./YaNaxD
...Uz6.....G..../ME0/....2Ej6...G.....E2.....sv.va23ZSjD/.ULWuCEbJR2/xckpp1.BnAn
x6EnAnQD12..1..........wz.................................U0.....y1...sD...../..
.z1...sDjS5e9z2EXvfiPTmXxnpwyYU5eSB3cnijIG7pHHdnrv1hUFVdVAwoyU47YJqqs7ij0iMJ.mOV
Ev9YSVLH3L8wyeURLYuIBCjjU...U0I78.............sD42....sD..G..I7wnmhhYvvj2kpp9z8V
gzvQxRB8GmqC.rAnAt1...sD....zw1...................................UCGuOE0....k1.
.....OD8wz1.....I/kJTVzsxHkG.s8.V/...g2...EB....m.6N1A1.kMk3....6/...6a4....SIT7
El2U.Cwk1zT7kcpzpoXEzzjzL16E1c..zzzz..EbG7eFT5uD6U0dRIRSkzn.ePF9CAAvz0k.3xjuzvD.
.Eot8VlJqyf.R8Zc4xRczC...........Ek6zHCAw/..yrjN/TfzzgG92FpyVY.E/UvL6rfz/.Q.2c..
zzzz............E0...................2./8.kzzzD............8....................
/EU0.wzzz1...................................QTs6/EwaHCUC2kAmU0.M3ZGwJw8n618.UvY
L76dhAXAc.E8K6VYxsmAmU0.cTyolh/An618.QIDvg60nAXAc.EWQF3RTQqAmU0.bq6WD02Qn618.gH3
Dg6xzBXAc.kJiQ0g...crIGJzzFoTuIdyzngi8qdxzZX.4rU................................
E...2AU6V2k.....I....Q....EHZtqNZ7LAhYYFH/................................U/4M..
..........EnAnAnAng../........zD........kz1........sz...........................
..............yD..................kD./..........................................
.....................2.....3....B....AqPgJLPiBLG4B3.Z75.........................
....C.....U.....0....cNaNaNaNavD........EznAnAnAnAHwz........6.E........UzPnAnAn
AnAuz..........E...................4./........zD........6.2...................zD
aNaNaNaNKz1........wz.........../....E/...k1....cJ4PdB5RVZaQnZYFH/..............
............Cs...6..4MU/0.........................EszcNaNaNaNfwjOaNaNaNahynNaNaN
aNaiz0..................Ez1.......................................U6.NaNaNaNaNxj
OaNaNaNady1........wzoAnAnAnAnxD............}
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