Add operation for splitting faces #2097
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Implement an operation that can split a face of a shell along a line.
You can see the split face in this screenshot by the way the shell is triangulated. If there was a single square face facing the camera, it would get triangulated in the minimal way, using two triangles. However, the line through the center that is visible here is the boundary between two faces.
Splitting faces is not useful in itself, but it provides a building block for more complex modeling operations. For example, once it is possible to add to a shell by extruding from one of its faces, then splitting faces becomes a very valuable way to control this capability.
Close #2023