VHD: A system for directing real-time virtual actors

Visual Computer

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 320-329

  Sannier, Gaël ^a   Balcisoy, Selim ^b   Magnenat Thalmann, Nadia ^a   Thalmann, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

VIRTUAL HUMAN DIRECTOR (VHD) SYSTEMS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033329811     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003710050181     Document Type: Article

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