This comes out of considering a one-dimensional transition in weight
on a rectangular cloth grid. At the transition face loop, one side
of each rectangular face would be scaled by k1, and the opposite one
by k2, thus turning the rectangle into a trapezoid. Averaging would
be used to choose the scale factor for the remaining two sides.
If Geometrical Mean, i.e. sqrt(k1*k2) is used, it so happens that the
diagonals of the trapezoid also end up scaled by sqrt(k1*k2) compared
to the original rectangle. This means that the same scale factor is
correct for both structural and shear springs, which is not the case
with simple average.
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