There are several technical specifications for BRL-CAD, each provided as both a troff man page (.man) and a plain ASCII file (.txt):
These describe BRL-CAD's black-and-white image file format and utilities.
These describe BRL-CAD's color RGB image file format and utilities.
These describe BRL-CAD's 3D color graphic and plotting interface.
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