Smart Graphics: 9th International Symposium, Sg 2008, Rennes, France, August 27-29, 2008 ; Proceedings Sg 2008

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2008, held in Rennes, France in August 2008. The 17 revised full papers together with 9 short papers and 3 demonstrations presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on sketching, navigation and selection, studies and evaluation, camera planning, as well as visualization. Front Matter....Pages - Pillow: Interactive Flattening of a 3D Model for Plush Toy Design....Pages 1-7 Using the CAT for 3D Sketching in Front of Large Displays....Pages 8-19 MathPaper: Mathematical Sketching with Fluid Support for Interactive Computation....Pages 20-32 Intelligent Mouse-Based Object Group Selection....Pages 33-44 Improving 3D Selection in VEs through Expanding Targets and Forced Disocclusion....Pages 45-57 Finger Walking in Place (FWIP): A Traveling Technique in Virtual Environments....Pages 58-69 An Empirical Study of Bringing Audience into the Movie....Pages 70-81 Creative Sketches Production in Digital Design: A User-Centered Evaluation of a 3D Digital Environment....Pages 82-93 Evaluation of an Augmented Photograph-Based Pedestrian Navigation System....Pages 94-105 Representative Views and Paths for Volume Models....Pages 106-117 Real-Time Camera Planning for Navigation in Virtual Environments....Pages 118-129 Virtual Camera Composition with Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 130-141 Through-the-Lens Scene Design....Pages 142-153 Similarity-Based Exploded Views....Pages 154-165 Hardware-Accelerated Illustrative Medical Surface Visualization with Extended Shading Maps....Pages 166-177 Smart Lenses....Pages 178-189 Overlapping Clustered Graphs: Co-authorship Networks Visualization....Pages 190-199 dream.Medusa: A Participatory Performance....Pages 200-206 The Visual Expression Process: Bridging Vision and Data Visualization....Pages 207-215 Flux: Enhancing Photo Organization through Interaction and Automation....Pages 216-223 PhotoSim: Tightly Integrating Image Analysis into a Photo Browsing UI....Pages 224-231 Thor: Sketch-Based 3D Modeling by Skeletons....Pages 232-238 Sketch-Based Navigation in 3D Virtual Environments....Pages 239-246 Adaptive Layout for Interactive Documents....Pages 247-254 Curvature- and Model-Based Surface Hatching of Anatomical Structures Derived from Clinical Volume Datasets....Pages 255-262 Relational Transparency Model for Interactive Technical Illustration....Pages 263-270 An Interactive Large Graph Visualizer....Pages 271-272 Panel Beat: Layout and Timing of Comic Panels....Pages 273-276 Back Matter....Pages - For centuries, artists and designers have been creating communicative graphics. With the advent of new forms of media, the emergence of paradigms such as ubiquitous computing, and the rapid evolution of interaction devices, there is a continuous cycle of renewal of the technologies and methods to support artists, interaction designers and developers. Developingnewapproachesrequiresanunderstandingofthe fundamentals of perception and cognition as they relate to interaction and communication te- nologies, together with arti?cial intelligence and computer graphics techniques to automate reasoning and enhance cognition. Smart Graphics is in essence an interdisciplinary endeavor and brings together the ?elds of computer graphics, arti?cial intelligence, cognitive science, graphic design and ?ne art. The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2008 was held on August 27–29 in Rennes, France. It was the ninth event in a series which originally started in 2000 as an American Association for Arti?cial Intelligence Spring Symposium and has taken place every year since then. Due to the high quality of the papers submitted this year, the ProgramCommittee decided to accept 17 fullpapers(insteadoftheusual15),9shortpapersand3systemdemonstrations. The acceptance rate for full papers was 34%. This year’s meeting included a discussion as to the nature of the shape, contentandfutureoftheevent.Representativesfromdi?erentcommunitieswere invitedtogivetheiropinions,andtheorganizingcommitteewouldliketowarmly thank them here. Such questions as the ongoing viability of the symposium and theconsequencesofco-locatingSmartGraphicswithotherlargerresearchevents led to interesting debates and have prepared the groundwork for what could be the future of the Smart Graphics conference series. Andreas Butz ... [et Al.] (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.