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A new generation of synthetic actors: The real-time and interactive perceptive actors

@inproceedings{Thalmann1996ANG,
  title={A new generation of synthetic actors: The real-time and interactive perceptive actors},
  author={Daniel Thalmann},
  year={1996}
}
We show the evolution from the earliest frame-by-frame synthetic actors to real-time perceptive actors living in distributed virtual environments or even in the real world. We first compare requirements and methods for frame-by-frame and real-time actors. Then, we introduce a new classification of synthetic actors with four categories: participants, guided actors, autonomous actors, and interactive perceptive actors. Actors of this last category are not only aware of other actors and real… 
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