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Improv: a system for scripting interactive actors in virtual worlds

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SIGGRAPH '96: Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

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https://doi.org/10.1145/237170.237258

Published: 01 August 1996 Publication History

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DOI:10.1145/237170

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