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  • $\begingroup$ What have you tried? $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 19, 2020 at 18:37
  • $\begingroup$ I will add that, I’m stuck figuring out how to upload the animation right now:( $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 19, 2020 at 18:39
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    $\begingroup$ It's not a torus thingy, its technical name is a Moebius thingy. $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 19, 2020 at 19:19
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    $\begingroup$ This is not a 3D object. It is a sequence of 16 identical hexagons arranged in a circle. The corresponding vertices of the neighbouring hexagons are joined to form a "face". The hexagons are then rotated in unison about their individual centres to create the animation. The tricky bit is working out the z-ordering of the faces to draw it correctly. The colouring is also somewhat artistic. It doesn't have any consistency for the specular flashes. $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 20, 2020 at 2:41
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    $\begingroup$ You can get rotation by putting the thing in a Manipulate and adding a phase to both Sin[v] as Sin[v+p] and Cos[v] as Cos[v+p], and varying the p from 0 to 2pi $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 26, 2020 at 16:10