BRL-CAD maintains a bibliography file that keeps track of published articles and reports pertaining to BRL-CAD, but it would be useful to have similar files that keep track of other topics. There are commonly two ways to create and maintain a .bib file. One way is manually (using any text editor) and the other is using a GUI such as JabRef. The rule of thumb is generally to use the text editor approach when building a .bib file of references that are pre-packaged (such as those often provided by publishers of journal articles) and to use a tool like JabRef when you have to create the entire entry from scratch. This task involves creating a NURBS.bib file that documents BRL-CAD's various paper references contained in the bibliographics of the following papers (include these papers and what they reference): Practical Ray Tracing of Trimmed NURBS Surfaces http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.35.7126 Direct and Fast Ray Tracing of NURBS Surfaces http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.90.7500 Watertight Trimmed NURBS http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.146.3590 The best route is probably assembly of pre-existing .bib entries from either the citeseerx website or from the sites of the journal actually publishing the article. References: Code:
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I would like to work on this task.
So I am to go to the three listed sites and add all the citations there to one .bib file?
This task has been assigned to Dr Coconut. You have 48 hours to complete this task, good luck!
Basically, as well as creating correct/accurate bib entries for those three papers too.
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