I learned about this smooth-abs p=sqrt(p*p+a)-b at https://youtube.com/watch?t=1087 by Blackle Mori acording to @iquilezles it was introduced by the user omeometo at https://shadertoy.com/view/wljXzh
It's possible to make some really cool "soft fractals" using this technique! Awesome!
This program node based program is MaterialMaker - https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker
This uses my Ray Marching Library that can be found here https://github.com/paulofalcao/Materi...