Nadia Thalmann, University of Geneva
Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Published August, 1996 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1997, 304 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-518309-X
$55.00

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