checked in surfMesh library code

- keyedSurface is similar to triSurface, but uses faces
  - meshedSurface is sorted in regions and should be more memory efficient
  - surfMesh is the placeholder name for an OpenFOAM native surface format

applications/utilities/surface/README

@@ -1,40 +1,46 @@
-09/01/04
+2008-10-23
+
 Contents:
 
 surfaceAdd
-adds to surface files. (but does not intersect or anything) 
+- adds to surface files. (but does not intersect or anything)
 
 surfaceBooleanOp
-Boolean operations (add, or, xor) on closed surfaces. Probably not working.
+- Boolean operations (add, or, xor) on closed surfaces. Probably not working.
 
 surfaceCheck
-checks surface for incorrect topology. Checks normals of neighbouring faces.
+- checks surface for incorrect topology. Checks normals of neighbouring faces.
 
 surfaceCoarsen
-Stan Melax coarsening algorithm
+- Stan Melax coarsening algorithm
 
 surfaceConvert
-Converts surfaces to/from various formats
+- Converts surfaces to/from various formats
 
 surfaceFind
-Finds nearest vertex and face to given point.
+- Finds nearest vertex and face to given point.
 
 surfaceMeshTriangulate
-Triangulate external facses of mesh and write as surface.
+- Triangulate external facses of mesh and write as surface.
 
 surfacePointMerge
-Explicit point merge of surface.
+- Explicit point merge of surface.
 
 surfaceSetOutside
-Orient normals on (closed) surface.
+- Orient normals on (closed) surface.
 
 surfaceSmooth
-Laplacian smoothing on surface vertices
+- Laplacian smoothing on surface vertices
 
 surfaceSubset
-Subsets surface
+- Subsets surface
 
 surfaceToPatch
-Applies region information of surfaces to mesh. Each external face of mesh
-gets region number of nearest surface triangle.
+- Applies region information of surfaces to mesh.
+  Each external face of mesh gets region number of nearest surface triangle.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+surfaceMeshConvert
+- Similar to surfaceConvert, but uses surfMesh library