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Online Exhibition: Origins and Journeys CALL FOR PROPOSALS Inspired by the “Original Narratives” exhibition to be curated by Andrés Burbano for the SIGGRAPH 2018 Art Gallery, the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Committee invites proposals for works to be shown in a new, juried online exhibition on the theme of “Origins + Journeys.” Digital art formats for the web-based, online exhibition might include still images, animations, short time-based media excerpts (with links to longer works), interactions, installation documentation, or other formats suitable for presentation on the web. We are especially interested in art that explores the Origins + Journeys topic thematically and conceptually, through both the medium and content of the work. Work will be juried by the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Committee members, along with other curators, scholars, and practitioners in the field. As with the other online exhibitions organized by the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, this exhibition will be presented and promoted primarily online. However, in keeping with our shared theme, we also plan to feature this online exhibition on a single screen or kiosk adjacent to the Art Gallery at the annual SIGGRAPH 2018 conference in Vancouver in 2018. Questions may be directed to the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Chair at arts AT siggraph.org. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 15, 2018

• Acquisition and reconstruction
• Analysis and design for fabrication
• Architectural and industrial geometry
• Computational geometric design
• Computer-aided design and manufacturing
• Discrete differential geometry
• Exploration of shape collections
• Geometry and topology representations
• Geometry compression
• Geometric data sorting, clustering, and visualization
• Geometry processing applications
• Interactive techniques for shape design and editing
• Isogeometric analysis
• Machine learning in geometry
• Mesh editing and deformation
• Meshing and remeshing
• Multiresolution modeling and subdivision meshes
• Multimodal shape processing
• Procedural geometric modeling
• Processing of big geometric datasets
• Shape analysis and synthesis
• Simulation and animation
• Smoothing and denoising
• Surface and volume parameterization
   

• Abstract submissions:  April 6, 2018
• Full paper submissions:  April 12, 2018
• Notification of acceptance:  May 23, 2018
• Revised version due:  June 15, 2018    
• Camera ready copy due:  June 25, 2018

Call For Submissions: 3rd Annual Symposium on Computational Fabrication

Conference Date: June 17-19th
Location: MIT building E14 hosted by the Center for Bits and Atoms, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Website: https://scf.acm.org/

The Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF), sponsored by the ACM, provides a holistic home for new research and developments in the interdisciplinary areas of digital manufacturing and computational design. The theme this year is “The Next 50 Years”; we will highlight advances in the field that will have a lasting impact, and discuss the broader implications. We are seeking high-quality research submissions in all areas relating to computational fabrication including (but not limited to): computer science, engineering, materials science, architecture, human-computer interaction, and robotics. The goal of SCF is to advance the state-of-the-art in computational fabrication via the exchange of new research, discussions and collaborations and to become the preeminent venue for such activities in the burgeoning field of Computational Design and Fabrication.

In order to provide a general framework for the diverse topics encompassed by SCF, we are organizing this year’s sessions around the following themes:

• Conception: design inception, representation, discovery process, and refinement
• Implementation: hardware and software tools and materials to realize designs
• Application: what is the real-world relevance of realized designs
• Implication: what are the broader social impacts of applied designs

In order to attract both mature research results as well as cutting-edge developments, the SCF will be accepting Full Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, and Demos. Please see below for the submission requirements and dates.

Full Papers

Deadline:  April 5th 2018
Description: 10 page limit. If accepted, authors will be awarded a 15 minute presentation platform to present the work. These papers are archived as part of the ACM Digital Library

Extended Abstracts

Deadline:  May 25th 2018
Description:  3-5 pages. If accepted, authors will be awarded a 5 minute presentation platform to present the work.  These abstracts are NOT archived as part of the ACM Digital Library, in an effort to promote new/breaking results.

Posters and Demos

Deadline:  May 25th 2018
Description:  2 page abstract along with the poster layout. These poster/demo abstracts are NOT archived as part of the ACM Digital Library, in an effort to promote new/breaking results.

Conference Chairs

Neil Gershenfeld
Rob MacCurdy
David I.W. Levin

SIGGRAPH's SpaceTime 2018 International Student Competition

This competition provides an excellent opportunity for students currently attending school in either traditional academic setting or home school at either the College/University levels or High School/Secondary levels and working in computer based media to exhibit their creative work nationally and internationally.
Entries will be judged by international jurors on the basis of solution of the theme, artistic merit, design, originality, technical excellence, and content. We are interested in ways to push the limits of the technology available or involve combinations of technologies. The first two winners will receive a non-transferable complimentary Conference Select registration to the SIGGRAPH 2018 Conference in Vancouver, Canada August 12-16th, which does not include travel or lodging. Selected works will be exhibited at the SIGGRAPH Education Committee Booth at the 2018 Conference and included on the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee web site, and in promotional materials. The authors of accepted works will receive a letter, which may serve as a basis for applying for their schools’ grants to attend the conference. http://s2018.siggraph.org/.  

Deadline: May 15, 2018

The theme for SpaceTime 2018 is: “Generations”, keeping with the theme of 2018 conference. 
We are looking for posters that depict this idea.
Submission Requirements:

• One entry per student.
• Send a jpg file:
  • – Image size is A3 (11.7” x 16.5”–297 x 420 mm) 300-ppi RGB, JPG format.
  • – Name your files and folder: firstname_lastname_s2018.jpg
• Send a Word document named firstname_lastname_s2018.docx with:
  • Student’s name: First Name, Last Name
  • Title of Work
  • Student’s email address
  • School and Department/Program name with City and Country
  • Professor's name
  • A brief artist’s statement (maximum 250 words)
  • A brief technical statement (maximum 150 words)

You may include text in the poster design as long as it suits the theme. A minimal use of text is suggested. You should not use any copyrighted imagery for your poster. You may use images released under a Creative Commons license that allows for derivative works, or images that are in the public domain, but you are responsible for copyright related issues.

Submission Methods:
Email attachments: one image, one info statement to anna.ursyn [at] unco.edu, Cc: aursyn [at] gmail.com.

Because of the spam folder, please send to both addresses.
By submitting your work you state that no copyrighted images were used, and agree that SIGGRAPH Education Committee retains the right to archive the project description on our web sites and promotional materials for fair use. Materials will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

Questions should be directed to: Dr. Anna Ursyn.

More Information please see: https://education.siggraph.org/conferences/annual-conference/siggraph-2018/spacetime-cfp

CALL FOR PAPERS — NEW DEADLINE !

In cooperation with EG, a Eurographics2018 co-located event:
The 14th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'18)
April 15-16, 2018, Delft (The Netherlands)
Submission deadline ** February 13, 2018 **

https://vriphys2018.sciencesconf.org/

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We are pleased to announce the 14th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation VRIPHYS 2018. The workshop will take place in Delft (NL) on April 15-16, 2018.  It is organized in cooperation with EG.

VRIPHYS is one of the well-established international conferences in the field of computer animation and virtual reality. The workshop provides an opportunity for researchers in virtual reality and computer animation to present and discuss their latest results and to share ideas for potential directions of future research. Plenary keynotes, an industrial session and a PhD competition will complete the program.

For this edition, the workshop will be co-located once again with the 39th Eurographics Conference (April 16-20, 2018), and the best papers will be offered the opportunity to be published in the Computers&Graphics journal!

Topics of interest
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Include, but are not limited to:

• animation, e.g. physically-based, vision-based, knowledge-based and geometric approaches
• virtual and augmented reality
• planning, learning, optimization for animation
• interfaces for creating and editing animations
• perception in animation
• autonomous characters, group and crowd behavior
• natural phenomena
• mathematical foundations of animation
• haptics
• sound interfaces
• related techniques, e. g. collision detection and contact handling
• applications, e. g. in robotics, medicine, entertainment

Computers&Graphics Journal VSI

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The "best papers Awards" will be given to the author(s) of full papers presented at the conference, selected by the Committee. Traditionally, the three honored papers are invited to submit an extended version to the journal Computers & Graphics, for publication in a Virtual Special Issue (VSI).
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-graphics

Submission

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Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and application papers addressing all areas of VRIPHYS.
Paper submissions in PDF should be formatted according to the EG publication style, following the instructions:
https://vriphys2018.sciencesconf.org/page/submission_page

Submissions must be anonymous, should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages. We encourage the submission of supplementary videos to particularly illustrate dynamic aspects of a submission. All materials will be submitted electronically through the SRM portal before January 30, 2018.
https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/VRIPHYS_2018

All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the International Program Committee. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. All accepted papers will be published as part of the full proceedings in the EG Digital Library at the time of the workshop.

Important dates

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• Preliminary Summary:       January 23, 2018
• Full Paper Submission:     February 13, 2018
• Full Paper Notification:   March 12,2018
• Camera-ready:              March 27,2018
• Conference:                April. 15-16, 2018
• Poster/Work-in-Progress submission:  March 27, 2018

Steering committee

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• Sheldon Andrews, ETS Montreal, Canada
• Jan Bender, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Jérémie Dequidt, Univ. Lille – INRIA North Europe, France
• Kenny Erleben, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Fabrice Jaillet, IUT Lyon 1, LIRIS, Lyon, France
• Matthias Teschner, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Gabriel Zachmann, University of Bremen, Germany

For more information, please visit https://vriphys2018.sciencesconf.org/
And see you in Delft!