I started this project by looking at rhino tutorials for very basic ring shapes. I then used a modified script from online to generate a mobius strip. However, when baked into rhino, the strip was not a real mesh, as the command had the mesh intersect itself. This is why parts of the ring are discolored, as the mesh passes through itself and then ceases to be solid. I tried to fix this by manually removing the intersection but soon realized I would have to manually delete over 20000 mesh faces and then replace them with working ones, and I'm not sure I want to spend the time doing that. Instead, I began to look into other extensions and evntually found one made specifically for jewelry that had components to make braids with parameters and defined ring sizes and materials. I used this and played with settings until I was satisfied with the result, then baked it into rhino and fixed up some small issues with naked edges before printing a model to get the sizing right.

I started with the basic tutorial, but to try to get some additional variation and weirdness besides just the standard graph shapes, I used a jitter command to randomly swap x and y values, allowing me to get a more complex shape  in the loft without any intersections

this tutorial was relatively simple, and while I didn't do anything original afterwards, it was helpful later in other tutorials like graph plotting, where I used the closed loft to make a weird shape