VertFigure -- generate schematic illustrations of vertebral columns
Copyright 2013-2014 Mike Taylor <mike@miketaylor.org.uk>
Licensed under the Gnu General Public Licence v3.0

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This project contains VertFigure, a program for generating schematic
illustrations of vertebral columns, visually similar to that of
Wedel (2009:supplementary figure 1):
	https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/wedel-2009-supplementary-fig-1.jpg
It was first written to make Wedel and Taylor (2013a: figure 9):
	https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/wedel-and-taylor-2013-bifurcation-figure-9-bifurcatogram.jpg
And then re-used to make Wedel and Taylor (2013b: figure 2):
	https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/wedel-taylor-2013b-figure-2-phylogenetic-distribution-of-caudal-pneumaticity.jpg

Input is in the VCD (Vertebral Column Description) format, which is
defined for the first time in this project (but not yet documented).
Two such inputs (the ones we used for the 2013 papers) are
"bifurcation.vcd" and "pbj.vcd", and can be found in the "examples"
area.

These files are translated into SVG by the bin/VertFigure script.
This is written in Perl, using the SVG library.


REFERENCES
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Wedel, Mathew J. 2009. Evidence for bird-like air sacs in saurischian
dinosaurs. Journal of Experimental Zoology 311A:611-628.
	http://sauroposeidon.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/wedel-2009-air-sacs.pdf

Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2013a. Neural spine
bifurcation in sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation:
ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications. PalArch's Journal of
Vertebrate Palaeontology 10(1):1-34.
	http://www.palarch.nl/wp-content/Wedel-and-Taylor-2013-Neural-spine-bifurcation-in-sauropod-dinosaurs-PJVP-10-11.pdf

Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor 2013b. Caudal pneumaticity and
pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and
Apatosaurus. PLOS ONE 8(10):e78213. 14 pages. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0078213
	http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078213