I found this Tutorial about how to put a texture onto the edge of an object.  He uses a remesh modifier, and pointiness from the geometry shading node.

Here is a short animation using the demo objects from the asset manager demo from blender.  You can get the demo here.

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This tutorial talks about a scene done in cinema4d, but most of the ideas can be used in any 3d program.  

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I made this image by following this tutorial.

I used this tutorial here,