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Sam Nead
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I don't know a general answer for your question, but I would be very excited to learn of one. Or at least more examples! Here is what I do know.

In the forward direction - from the upper half plane $\mathbb{H}$ to the polygon $P$. If $P$ is a regular $n$-gon, the SC map can given in terms of a hypergeometric function. See Exercise 5.19 of the paper "Mappings to polygonal domains" in the book "Explorations in complex analysis".

In the backwards direction - from $P$ to $\mathbb{H}$. If $P$ is a "rational" triangle (all angles are rational multiples of $\pi$) then it may be unfolded to give a quadratic differential $q_P$ on a Riemann surface $X_P$. (The unfolding procedure comes from the theory of billiards.) The inverse to the SC map is then, by the Schwarz reflection principle, a branched covering from $X_P$ to the Riemann sphere. In the presence of symmetries this covering map can have pretty expressions.

I carefully understood the covering map in two cases beyond the trigonometric example. When $P$ is a square or a hexagon we treat it as the unfolding of a rational triangle $Q$. We deduce that $X_Q$ is a square or hexagonal torus. Thus the covering map is the Weierstrass $\wp$-function for the square and hexagonal lattices, respectively.

Sam Nead
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