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

by Butz, Andreas; Fisher, Brian; Kruger, Antonio; Olivier, Patrick; Christie, Marc

• ISBN13: 9783540854104
• ISBN10: 354085410X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Sketching
Pillow: Interactive Flattening of a 3D Model for Plush Toy Design	p. 1
Using the CAT for 3D Sketching in Front of Large Displays	p. 8
MathPaper: Mathematical Sketching with Fluid Support for Interactive Computation	p. 20
Navigation and Selection
Intelligent Mouse-Based Object Group Selection	p. 33
Improving 3D Selection in VEs through Expanding Targets and Forced Disocclusion	p. 45
Finger Walking in Place (FWIP): A Traveling Technique in Virtual Environments	p. 58
Studies and Evaluation
An Empirical Study of Bringing Audience into the Movie	p. 70
Creative Sketches Production in Digital Design: A User-Centered Evaluation of a 3D Digital Environment	p. 82
Evaluation of an Augmented Photograph-Based Pedestrian Navigation System	p. 94
Camera Planning
Representative Views and Paths for Volume Models	p. 106
Real-Time Camera Planning for Navigation in Virtual Environments	p. 118
Virtual Camera Composition with Particle Swarm Optimization	p. 130
Through-the-Lens Scene Design	p. 142
Visualisation
Similarity-Based Exploded Views	p. 154
Hardware-Accelerated Illustrative Medical Surface Visualization with Extended Shading Maps	p. 166
Smart Lenses	p. 178
Overlapping Clustered Graphs: Co-authorship Networks Visualization	p. 190
Short Papers
dream.Medusa: A Participatory Performance	p. 200
The Visual Expression Process: Bridging Vision and Data Visualization	p. 207
Flux: Enhancing Photo Organization through Interaction and Automation	p. 216
PhotoSim: Tightly Integrating Image Analysis into a Photo Browsing UI	p. 224
Thor: Sketch-Based 3D Modeling by Skeletons	p. 232
Sketch-Based Navigation in 3D Virtual Environments	p. 239
Adaptive Layout for Interactive Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Curvature- and Model-Based Surface Hatching of Anatomical Structures Derived from Clinical Volume Datasets	p. 255
Relational Transparency Model for Interactive Technical Illustration	p. 263
Demos and Posters
An Interactive Large Graph Visualizer	p. 271
Panel Beat: Layout and Timing of Comic Panels	p. 273
Author Index	p. 277
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