aka "More playing around in Apophysis to find out what it does..."
(I've noticed that I'm tending towards the gold/silver/metallic gradients)
First three images are exactly the same rendered PNG overlaid on different backgrounds in GIMP - that's why I'd recommend enabling PNG transparency for Apophysis renders.
Image 1: Originally "Just Gone Nine Fifteen Alien Time" because in Apophysis on a black background it definitely looked like an alien wristwatch to me!
Image 2: However, when I put the rendered PNG on a white background it was even more obvious - it's a marble alien goblet (viewed from above) with gold decoration around the rim (probably applied by dipping the rim into molten gold and letting the drips solidfy as it was slowly lifted), half-filled with a frothy white liquid with a misty layer above it... and that's obviously the alien equivalent of a twist of lemon on the top!
Image 3: Or then again, on a spirally black and white background it's the tentacly mouthparts of an alien coming through the vortex! Aaarrggghhh! - that's its tooth in the middle, like the spinning blade of a rotary-lawnmower!
Image 4: I noticed a break in the 3 o'clock hand of the original render, so I tweaked the triangles and got rid of it. Also made a few other tweaks.
Image 5: I think I used a random starting pointed, deleted all except one triangle (which had Julia and Blur variations - no idea what that means, just noticed it), duplicated it, moved both so their 'O' corners were on the grey triangle's 'O', and played with them a bit.
Image 6: This was one of a randomly generated batch. I fiddled with it to create my alien cobwebs, but I think the original may be better!
Image 7: This was what happened when I moved the triangles of image 6 so that their 'O' corners overlaid...
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I've even done a very, very short micro-tutorial here on ShareCG to help get you started!