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Gouraud shading with tripcolor renders incorrectly as SVG in Jupyter notebook

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Description

### Bug report
**Bug summary**

When the matplotlib backend is set to 'SVG' in a Jupyter Notebook, it seems that matplotlib does not render 'gouraud' shading correctly.

**Code for reproduction**

I've uploaded a minimal example of my problem here:
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/CorbinFoucart/FEMexperiment/blob/master/app/mpl_bug.ipynb

**Actual outcome**

Note the 'gouraud' shading with SVG in the notebook. If I save the output to file and view the output, it is similarly not shaded, which indicates to me that this is not a Jupyter issue, nor a browser issue.

**Matplotlib version**

* Operating system: OSX El Capitan 10.11.6
* Matplotlib version: 2.2.2
* Matplotlib backend (`print(matplotlib.get_backend())`): module://ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline
* Python version: 3.6.4
* Jupyter version:
```
ipykernel==4.8.2
jupyter==1.0.0
jupyter-client==5.2.3
jupyter-console==5.2.0
jupyter-core==4.4.0
```

I installed matplotlib in a virtual environment with `pip`.

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Research direction

Start by running the linked mpl_bug.ipynb minimal reproduction with the SVG backend and inspect both the notebook output and the saved SVG. Trace the SVG rendering path for tripcolor with gouraud shading. Done means the shading appears correctly in both the notebook and saved output.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, python
Domain
data-visualization
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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