Benesi "pinetree" (fold+bulb)

[M Benesi]

 yeah!  Basically, I'm taking a cube... making it a sphere.  Then I transform it back. Or the other way around (in the case of the squary pine tree above). 

[M Benesi]

omg... I think Scale and Offset are reversed in all the assembly!  At least in the one I just opened to cannibalize.  I wonder... will have to compare with other stuff!

[thargor6]

To compare speed, I rendered the example you provided at 960x720 once with the ASM-formula, once with the on-the-fly compiled formula:
Hand-coded ASM: 14 seconds
On-the-fly compiled : 42 seconds

In the meanwhile the solution can reach much better speed.
Using the current prototype, I created a test-render with the initial example from Luca, i. e. two formulas, one of them is the BenesiTree, resolution was 1920x1440.

Both formulas hand-coded ASM: 15 seconds
Same setting, but exchanged one formula by the JIT-variant: 25 seconds