Assembling curvature continuous surfaces from triangular patches

We assemble triangular patches of total degree at most eight to form a curvature continuous surface. The construction illustrates how separation of local shape from representation and formal continuity yields an effective construction paradigm in partly underconstrained scenarios. The approach localizes the technical challenges and applies the spline approach, i.e. keeping the degree fixed but increasing the number of pieces, to deal with increased complexity when many patches join at a central point.

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