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Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques table of contents

Pages: 47 - 54

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-701-4

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Bruce M. Blumberg	MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., Cambridge MA
Tinsley A. Galyean	MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., Cambridge MA

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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