Animation Control for Real-Time Virtual Humans

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 64-73

  Badler, Norman I ^a   Palmer, Martha S ^a   Bindiganavale, Rama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS; NON-NASA CENTER;

NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0033170833     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/310930.310975     Document Type: Article

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