The OnLive logo
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I ran across the OnLive logo last week, and decided to try to make it in SU. It was obviously created with a 2D graphics program, but it depicts a 3D shape. In fact, it's a compound moebius strip with three twists instead of just one.
Here's the original logo:

It was a real skull cracker to visualize where to put the lines while drawing it, but I enjoy a good geometry problem. I threw out the first two approaches, and I got this result on the third try:

And here's a side view of the model:

The smoothed shape is SubSmoothed twice from the proxy...
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Magic ring.

Great job! -
More views please!
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@smallfry said:
More views please!
Welcome to SketchUcation, Smallfry.

Here's another view, and the zip file below is the .skp for this model. It includes a five-twist moebius strip as well.

MobieusStrip.zip
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