I currently can't sphere/cylinder map this type of chart/cuts

[ggaliens]

When I go as high as I did in mesh density ... the cutlines make sometimes arbitrarily small sliver triangles ... especially is I'm starting with triangle "foam" ... and then I worry about the oddballs like an edge that is near ZERO length.

I went and picked over the edges of the "8" cut lines to make it still a very nice "8". Flat, parallel caps, no short edges on cutline between caps. I did a lot of work ... but still it didn't want to sphere map. Oh well. Maybe I'll burn these test models to CDROM and comeback to them another day. GEODOME of high density may be good enough for now.