More later, but @jeff did a nifty Polar Star that will likely inspire you a bit.
I’m not sure we have any patterns using 3D polar, which is radius, angle aka theta (th), angle2 aka height angle(ha)…
But the beauty of PB mapping is that you could map that way, and treat x,y,z as r,th,ha and so long as your pattern makes sense and does the math right, it’ll work as expected.
I need to finalize one of my 3D sphere builds, life’s put it on the back burner, but we absolutely have enough people interested to make patterns for it.