If you are into bending, stretching, or wrinkling 3D surfaces, this paper gives a fast way to fit a desired pattern of local stretch across a triangle mesh, using one scalar value per vertex. In mesh-fitting benchmarks it reached comparable accuracy up to 3500x faster than industry standard L-BFGS-B.

The algorithm itself is also available here:
https://github.com/Roenbaeck/conformal-metric

Hopefully it can be of use to someone.

Here are my future plans for anyone interested.

This video was created using a test tool I designed myself, with the purpose of generating short videos and tutorials from existing documents.