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% note, using siggraph guidelines for pre-1993, 1993-2001, 2002
% except I am omitting unnecessary stuff like:
%publisher = "ACM Press / ACM SIGGRAPH, New York",
%editor = "E. Fiume",
%organization = "Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, ACM",
%Bar90: volume = 24, number = 4,
%BW92: volume = 26,number = 2,
%CZ92: volume = 26, number = 2,
%GTT89: volume = 23, number = 3,
%MT92: volume = 26, number = 2,
%TPBF87: volume = 21, number = 4,
%BNC96: volume = 15,number = 3,