What will a sphere look like if it's unwrapped?

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I actually google alot, but all results are related to 3D design apps like blender bla bla bla, No direct answers or even something to help. I tried to imagine it like some triangles arranged and all their top vertices are coincident, Any illustrations for that? If you can't understand, I meant like if we unwrap a cone, it will be a circular sector, what about the sphere?

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There is no way by which a sphere can be "unwrapped" in the same sense as a cylinder or a cone can be unwrapped. The reason is that a sphere has intrinsic curvature - essentially, the geometry on a sphere is too different from the geometry on a plane. Angles of a triangle on a sphere do not add up to 180°, on a cone or a cylinder they do.