Smart graphics : 6th international symposium, SG 2006, Vancouver, Canada, July 23-25, 2006 : proceedings

The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2006 was held during July 23–25, 2006, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. It was the seventh event in a series which originally started in 2000 as an AAAI Spring Symposium. In response to the overwhelming success of the 2000 symposium, its or- nizers decided to turn it into a self-contained event. With the support of IBM, the ?rst two International Symposia on Smart Graphics were held at the T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York, in 2001 and 2002. The 2003 symposium moved to the European Media Lab in Heidelberg. Since then the conference has alternated between North America and Europe. It was held at Ban? Alberta Canada in 2004 and at the cloister Frauenw ̈ orth on the island of Frauenchiemsee in Germany in 2005. The core idea behind these symposia is to bring together researchers and practitionersfrom the ?eld of computer graphics,arti?cialintelligence, cognitive science, graphic design and the ?ne arts. Each of these disciplines contributes to what we mean by the term “Smart Graphics”: the intelligent process of c- ating e?ective, expressive and esthetic graphical presentation. While artists and designers have been creating communicative graphics for centuries, arti?cial - telligence focuses on automating this process by means of the computer. While computer graphics provides the tools for creating graphical presentations in the ?rst place, the cognitive sciences contribute the rules and models of perception necessary for the design of e?ective graphics. Front Matter....Pages - Efficient View Management for Dynamic Annotation Placement in Virtual Landscapes....Pages 1-12 Predictive Text Fitting....Pages 13-23 Agent-Based Annotation of Interactive 3D Visualizations....Pages 24-35 Experiments in the Perception of Causality....Pages 36-49 Causal Perception in Virtual Environments....Pages 50-61 Deep Surrender: Musically Controlled Responsive Video....Pages 62-69 Hierarchical-Temporal Data Visualization Using a Tree-Ring Metaphor....Pages 70-81 AudioRadar: A Metaphorical Visualization for the Navigation of Large Music Collections....Pages 82-92 Visually Supporting Depth Perception in Angiography Imaging....Pages 93-104 A Modified Laplacian Smoothing Approach with Mesh Saliency....Pages 105-113 3D Sketching with Profile Curves....Pages 114-125 Feature-Preserving, Accuracy-Controllable Freeform Surfaces for Web-Based Surgical Simulations....Pages 126-137 The Sketch L-System: Global Control of Tree Modeling Using Free-Form Strokes....Pages 138-146 Through-the-Lens Cinematography....Pages 147-159 Explorations in Declarative Lighting Design....Pages 160-171 A Photographic Composition Assistant for Intelligent Virtual 3D Camera Systems....Pages 172-183 Copy-Paste Synthesis of 3D Geometry with Repetitive Patterns....Pages 184-193 Smart Sticky Widgets: Pseudo-haptic Enhancements for Multi-Monitor Displays....Pages 194-205 The EnLighTable: Design of Affordances to Support Collaborative Creativity....Pages 206-217 ArTVox: Evolutionary Composition in Visual and Sound Domains....Pages 218-223 An Account of Image Perceptual Understanding Based on Epistemic Attention and Reference....Pages 224-229 Using Rule Based Selection to Support Change in Parametric CAD Models....Pages 230-235 NEAR: Visualizing Information Relations in a Multimedia Repository....Pages 236-241 A Model for Interactive Web Information Retrieval....Pages 242-247 Representing and Querying Line Graphs in Natural Language: The iGraph System....Pages 248-253 MusicSpace: A Multi Perspective Browser for Music Albums....Pages 254-256 Large Display Size Enhances User Experience in 3D Games....Pages 257-262 Back Matter....Pages - The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2006 was held during July 23-25, 2006, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. It was the seventh event in a series which originally started in 2000 as an AAAI Spring Symposium. In response to the overwhelming success of the 2000 symposium, its or- nizers decided to turn it into a self-contained event. With the support of IBM, the?rst two International Symposia on Smart Graphics were held at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York, in 2001 and 2002. The 2003 symposium moved to the European Media Lab in Heidelberg. Since then the conference has alternated between North America and Europe. It was held at Ban? Alberta Canada in 2004 and at the cloister Frauenw· orth on the island of Frauenchiemsee in Germany in 2005. The core idea behind these symposia is to bring together researchers and practitionersfrom the?eld of computer graphics, arti?cialintelligence, cognitive science, graphic design and the?ne arts. Each of these disciplines contributes to what we mean by the term?Smart Graphics?: the intelligent process of c- ating e?ective, expressive and esthetic graphical presentation. While artists and designers have been creating communicative graphics for centuries, arti?cial - telligence focuses on automating this process by means of the computer. While computer graphics provides the tools for creating graphical presentations in the?rst place, the cognitive sciences contribute the rules and models of perception necessary for the design of e?ective graphics

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2006, held in Vancouver, Canada, July 2006. The book presents 19 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on intelligent text processing, perceptive systems, smart visualization, visual features, sketching and graphical abstraction, intelligent image and film composing, as well as smart interaction.