Add stationary ray output

[loganharbour]

Closes #26604

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[loganharbour]

Requires https://github.com/libMesh/libmesh/pull/3770

[loganharbour]

@roystgnr if you wouldn't mind taking a look at this. You're probably the best candidate for a review

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[loganharbour]

Using the vectorized NumericVector::insert() might be faster than the repeated set() calls, but I doubt it's a hotspot so I wouldn't bother.

Yeah, there's a lot in here that's not particularly optimized but I made the decision to prioritize readability here because it's already pretty complex as is figuring out all of the numbering 😬

[roystgnr]

I made the decision to prioritize readability here

My biggest vague misgiving with this area of code is that it feels like the Doxygen (in the existing pre-PR code) and the comments would benefit from being elaborated on, to about twice their current verbosity ... but I couldn't really find any specific bits to complain about, so I didn't bother; it's impossible to productively criticize a "vibe".

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[loganharbour]

Don't close. @gsgall still needs and can pester me about it