Add Volume-Based Centroid computation to structure/meshes #1228
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When operating on meshes, I found that I wanted to normalize it based on the center of the volume, as similar looking meshes may have different concentrations of points, and most tutorials use some measure of normalizing based on the average of all the points. While averaging all points is simple, it's not as simple to center based on the volume. I thought I'd add this, since it'd be convenient to use for normalization for others, and doesn't add much complexity to the overall API surface.
I'm not sure if the name is good, so if there's a better one let me know.
references:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48918530/how-to-compute-the-centroid-of-a-mesh-with-triangular-faces
https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-compute-surface-and-volume-based-center-of-masses-for-3d-geometries/3215