this shape is hiding in butterfly wings
it's a gyroid — a minimal surface that splits space into two separate labyrinths that never touch. here it's morphing through its three classic forms, in liquid chrome
this is a 4D object turning itself inside out.
what you're seeing is a quaternion Julia set — z² c, but in four dimensions — sliced into our 3D world and lit from within
the motion isn't a camera trick. the equation itself is everting