\right) dx\,dy If the case *kind* ='geom' is chosen by the user, a simple geometric approximation is used (weighted average of the triangle normal vectors), which could improve speed on very large grids. References ---------- .. [1] Michel Bernadou, Kamal Hassan, "Basis functions for general Hsieh-Clough-Tocher triangles, complete or reduced.", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 17(5):784 - 789. 2.01. .. [2] C.T. Kelley, "Iterative Methods for Optimization". Ú