Meshes or nets can be on surfaces. Scale can vary from point to point {Gaussian coordinate} {curvilinear coordinate}, in which case magnitude is not important. Locally, surface manifolds can have curvature zero, be flat, and use Pythagorean theorem to find distances, vectors, and metric.
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