A few months back, some Cinema 4D users were marveling at a polygon unfolding technique employed by Taylor James for an advertising campaign. At the time, I was working three jobs and missed the request for doing this in Cinema 4D. When I eventually found the requests and viewed the videos, realizing that no one had taken up the task, Unfurl was born.
Unfurl is a combination of a generator object and a tag which lets you do a similar unfolding as aforementioned. Going beyond the original technique, options have been included to scale the polygons as they unfold, have the polygons flip in or out or in a random flip direction. With the Unfurl Easy Setup command in the Plugins menu, you can select a Polygon object and quickly add the Unfurl object and tag and be on your way. This plugin is fast and memory conservative. Nonetheless, note that the application of control polygons on the tag may be a time-consuming process on objects with many polygons (nearing one million, for instance). This preprocess step helps drastically increase the speed of the actual unfolding by the Unfurl object so be patient.
Have fun and I sincerely hope that you find many uses for Unfurl.
Robert