This was originally meant to be an interleave() that operates on
MeshData, but later I realized I need the same logic in duplicate(), so
turned it into a private function. Now I am pretty sure I'll be using
this function in *many* importer plugins :D
With API analogous to the (relatively) new AnimationData -- with one
buffer containing all index data and one buffer containing all vertex
data, both meant to be uploaded as-is to the GPU.
This will eventually replace MeshData2D and MeshData3D, backwards
compatibility and wiring up to other APIs will be done in follow-up
commits.
There's a lot to change with the current version -- the bloaty tuple,
the useless min/max, and compressing all the way down to 8 bits is not
desirable anymore either. The new function allows to specify a minimal
type to compress to and works also on 8- and 16-byte types, which makes
it possible to also inflate a smaller type into a larger one.
The old function is now deprecated.
The templated version had the unfortunate "feature" of not being able to
figure out the type when an array view or a C array got passed to it.
That led to worse-than-ideal UX and even though it's now a bit more
verbose on the implementation side, it's the preferred solution.
It's potentially dangerous because the user is responsible for choosing
a correct type, on the other hand forcing them to do it verbosely
through arrayCast() is both too annoying and too hard to explain.
Note -- since there are no visual tests for Phong yet, this is done in
the least intrusive manner to avoid breaking current functionality. It's
likely very underperforming due to the matric calculation per fragment,
it'll get optimized once I have proper tests.
Also move it to a new GenerateNormals.h header so we can easily add
generateSmoothNormals() to it. The old API and header is deprecated and
will be removed in the future. I can't be bothered rewriting the old
code using the new thing, so it's preserved there as a mausoleum until
it gets finally nuked from the orbit.