How can I model this distorted torus?

Question

I'm trying to model a ring that is styled following this reference:

I'd like to make the distortions using geometry nodes and/or other modifiers such that they can be animated. Thinking the animation would probably be done by transforming the coordinate space of a texture, but I'm not sure what kind of modeling technique to follow for making the distorted hooky bits.

I wondered about doing this with shaders, i.e. a solid torus geometry with parts knocked off with transparency to achieve the effect. I feel it's probably doable with actual geometry though.

Edit: trying to improve on the vagueness, the specific thing that I'm stuck on is how to model the features circled below.

They look a bit like what the snake hook sculpting brush might be good for, but I'd like achieve them with nodes and/or modifiers.

Answer 1

If I understood the question correctly, you just want to move certain vertices of a ring outward and offset them radially, right?

...At least it looks like that on the picture. If I am wrong, please be so kind and clarify the question.

If I am correct, you could solve it as follows:

Use Curve to Mesh to create a ring.

Randomly select some vertices of the mesh with the node Random Value (set to Boolean).

Move them outwards along their normals, and rotate this vector a bit around the center.

I've made it a little more extreme than necessary, just to illustrate it better.