Way back in 1943 Fuller published a new method of transferring information from any surface to a flat surface (or vice versa) with the least possible amount of distortion.

It doesn't matter what the shape or size of the thing the information is on, whether it is solid or hollow, or if the data is on the inside or outside surfaces.

Specification beforehand of an appropriate base system (tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, VE, cube, etc.) & the level of accuracy (frequency) would give each vertex a unique address (altitude & azimuth) leaving the only variable to be the lengths of the various radii.

His method would lend itself elegantly to modern CAD/CAM efforts in designing everything from ultra-micro computers to jumbo jets.