If you feel it is appropriate, you may consider paying us back by
citing our EOS articles on GMT (and perhaps also our Geophysics
article on the GMT program surface) when you publish papers
containing results or illustrations obtained using GMT. The EOS
articles on GMT are
The article in Geophysics on surface is
GMT includes some code supplied by others, in particular the Triangle code used for Delaunay triangulation. Its author, Jonathan Shewchuk, says
``If you use Triangle, and especially if you use it to accomplish real work, I would like very much to hear from you. A short letter or email (to jrs@cs.cmu.edu) describing how you use Triangle will mean a lot to me. The more people I know are using this program, the more easily I can justify spending time on improvements and on the three-dimensional successor to Triangle, which in turn will benefit you.''
A few GMT users take the time to write us letters, telling us of the difference GMT is making in their work. We appreciate receiving these letters. On days when we wonder why we ever released GMT we pull these letters out and read them. Seriously, as financial support for GMT depends on how well we can ``sell'' the idea to funding agencies and our superiors, letter-writing is one area where GMT users can affect such decisions by supporting the GMT project.