Super Formula

The Super Formula shape is drawn by the superformula, a single equation that can describe stars, flowers, rounded squares, shells and organic blobs. Its outline is traced around a circle and extruded into a solid with a slight bevel, so every combination of sliders is a new object.

Shape settings

• Symmetry (1 to 20) sets how many lobes or corners repeat around the shape.
• Roundness inflates or pinches the whole shape: lower values make it puffier, higher values spikier.
• Twist 1 and Twist 2 shape each lobe; together they decide whether the edges bulge out like petals, run straight like a polygon or curve in like a star.
• Stretch X and Stretch Y squash one half of each lobe against the other for lopsided, organic forms.
• Resolution sets how many points trace the outline.

Display modes and materials

Solid shows the shape. Profile draws its outline as a single clean line, a good way to explore forms, and the point modes fill it with particles. Any material goes on it, from jade to gold.

Use it for

• Generative and abstract art
• Flower, shell and botanical motifs
• Custom logos and badges no one else has