Mesh Unwrapper
Here are some pictures of standard MAX objects, but unfolded (or maybe the correct word is "unwrapped" ?)
This is absolutely useless, yet very funny :)
The original objects:
And various results:
The cylinder, as we could have expected it:
The sphere, much more surprising:
The fascinating geosphere (what a design!!) :
The torus!
...and finally the fabulous unfolded teapot:
For more complex objects it quickly becomes a real mess:
The mesh unwrapper is a tiny part of Meshmerizer, a computational geometry library.