Me: "This math isn't working how I want but all the online answers seem happy with it, has nobody ever had to do this before?"
The random scientific paper from the 80s:

Needed to make something cool because i was about to explode, so when I had a moment of almost-free time last weekend, the ominous volumetric raymarched blob was born

Writing some SPIR-V by hand to get a grasp of what it looks like