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Mesh classes: provide usage notes and narrative descriptions

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type: documentation
Dominant language
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Description

What needs to be documented?
Having a UML for the mesh is useful, but in addition, having a narrative description of each of the mesh classes, with their reason to exist, would help.

What sort of documentation would help?
User guide and Doxygen.

What are the deficiencies of the existing documentation?
The existing documentation focuses on technical aspects, but does not provide much context for each class usage.

Additional notes or context
Doc Day task. Feedback from @jiemeng-total

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Research direction

Start by locating the mesh classes and the existing UML, user guide, and Doxygen documentation. Document each class's reason to exist and typical usage in the user guide and Doxygen, with enough narrative context to address the current technical focus.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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