Infrequent posts are infrequent. :)
I've decided to try to model Gaea, a toroidal alien described by John Varley in his Gaean trilogy: Titan, Wizard and Demon. Some help with getting the sizes of its components correct was provided by someone who'd modeled it previously. In the Celestia screen-grabs below, individual components are separate meshes and have different colors. This is to help verify that the sizes are appropriate. In the final version, each 60 degree segment of the torus will be a single mesh, prodded into the appropriate shape. (Note that its mirrors are omitted for now.)
Using a rectilinear segment:
With the segment bent 60 degrees:
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