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The Quadrilateral

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Rational Bases and Generalized Barycentrics

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Wedge basis functions with the properties enumerated in Sect. 1.5 have been known for many years for the triangle and the parallelogram.

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Wachspress, E. (2016). The Quadrilateral. In: Rational Bases and Generalized Barycentrics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21614-0_2

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