The idea of wrapping multiple copes of a basic unit shape got me thinking about generalizing the principle. So I wrote a script that, at the push of a button, grabs whatever is the current prop in your scene and warps multiple copies of it into a ring.

Here is my material pawn duplicated and wrapped around a circle.

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