Creating the silver ring is pretty easy. A negative cylinder inside a positive one. The celtic pattern is on another cylinder slighty (.01) bigger than the positive cylinder. I set that cylinder to be gold first and then just applied a transparancy using the celtic patterns from the black and white pictures above. The braiding I was gonna try in knotplot, but in the end it's just a load of tori multi-replicated in a circle.

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Phillip Drawbridge
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