This Quartz Composer patch renders spheres with a xRay shader , along the vertices of a super shape  (codes for the super shapes at http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/)

<Download the qz file : tl_superShape_sphere_3Dgrid_1.4.qtz     <Control lighting , spheres iterations , spheres diameters .     <Morph between two super shapes .