The ring looks the most realistic, that's for sure, but the ball does come in at a close second - though it's slightly less realistic looking probably because of the fact that it's on a sphere object whereas the ring is more probable.

Either way, great stuff.

The black ball o' hair looks great, as well as the ring, and the feather... No clue what the wiry stuff is... Close up? And that's... grass, up top?

But yeah, best thing is the black ball o' hair. It looks snazzy. ^_^

Yep, that's grass on top, for no particular reason, other than see if I could do it.

The wiry stuff is hair applied to the trajectory of a particle emitter, again, I have no idea what use that could make, but I wanted to see if I could do it.

Cool! ^_^

i'd be interested to hear the settings you used for the fur on the torus.
i haven't really mastered particle dynamics, as is probably obvious from how little i use them.

Sorry for the delay in responding.

The torus has a basic texture with the color, using a simple noise shader to mix black and orange. The hair inherits the color of the torus texture.

There are 200000 hairs on the torus, with 6 segments, combed to follow a circle spline inside the torus, and no dynamics interaction active.

The hairs start with a width of 1, and end with a width of 0.1, it has a Frizz factor of 5% and a Kink factor of 5%, both with 10% variation; all other settings are the default.

Hope this helps.

yes it does. thanks. i'll try that and see what i get in blender. since i DO have most, probably all, of those settings.

Unfortunately I don't know Blender, but if I can be of any more assistance just ask.