Dear colleagues,
This special issue includes revised and extended papers originally presented at the International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI) held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA on June 15-17, 2005. It was the seventh SMI conference, which was sponsored by IEEE and scheduled within the International Convention on Shapes and Solids 2005 (abbreviated ICS&S) together with the ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, with the aim of bringing together these two major international events in the field of shape modeling and processing. This conference originated and took place at the University of Aizu in Japan in 1997 and 1999. From 2001 the SMI conference became an annual event with the venue changing circularly from Asia to Europe and to America. It also includes the Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Workshop on Implicit Surfaces as a specific session.
80 papers were submitted to the conference out of which 30 full papers and 10 short papers were selected for presentation. The SMI conference is quite diverse in its topics. The SMI’05 proceedings included papers on shape reconstruction and design, modelling implicit and subdivision surfaces, surface meshes, shape analysis, physically-based and topological modeling. The papers selected for this special issue deal with point-based, subdivision, implicit and parametric surfaces; topological analysis and shape complexity
Michela Spagnuolo (Italy), Alexander Belyaev (Germany), and Alexander Pasko (Japan)
SMI'05 Program Co-chairs