k = 4 VE = 4 ES = 4 VS = 0
In this case we do not specify the tangent plane at the interior vertex. For details see Lemma 5 in
Peter Alfeld, Bruce Piper, and L.L. Schumaker, An Explicit
Basis for C 1 Quartic Bivariate Splines, SIAM J.
Num. Anal. 24 (1987), pp. 891-911.
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