Behaviourally rich actions for user-controlled characters

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 945-954

  Gillies, Marco ^a,b   Dodgson, Neil A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animation; Collaborative virtual environments; Gaming; Intelligent agents

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; GAME THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTONOMOUS EYE GAZE CONTROLLER; CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION; MOTION ADAPTATION; REAL TIME CONTROL;

ANIMATION;

EID: 7544223710     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2004.08.006     Document Type: Article

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