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Animation control for real-time virtual humans

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Norman I. Badler,

Martha S. Palmer,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 42, Issue 8

Pages 64 - 73

https://doi.org/10.1145/310930.310975

Published: 01 August 1999 Publication History

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