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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:16.8pt;background:#F3F3F3'><span style='font-size:17.0pt'>Special Section on Procedural Modeling - Submission Deadline: October 8, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Timeline:</span></strong><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br>Deadline for full papers: October 8th 2012<br>Paper Decision: November 19th 2012<br>Revised Papers: December 17th 2012<br>Final Decision: January 14th 2013<br>Final Version: February 18th 2013<br>Publication: April 7th 2013 (online)<br>May 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>In collaboration with the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Graphics, we are pleased to announce a special section on topics related to Procedural Modeling.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Procedural modeling techniques and algorithms are widely used and explored. Procedural techniques can be found in many professional applications and new algorithms covering areas such as vegetation modeling, urban modeling, furniture layout, and art design, are being published and developed to unprecedented new levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Despite the long history and wide acceptance of procedural modeling, many problems still prevail and should be addressed. Among them are the challenge of low-level control of procedural models, the limitation of needing to explicitly provide the generative rules and their parameter values, the inability to easily express a desired 3D output object as a procedural model, and the requirement of in-depth understanding of the underlying generative process in order to neatly alter the procedural rules and/or parameters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>We encourage the authors to send their new and unpublished work on the above-described topic to this special section of Computers & Graphics. The special issue is expected to collect original contributions on topics related, but not limited, to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>new procedural modeling methods,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>inverse problems in procedural modeling,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>controllability of procedural models,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>procedural modeling in gaming,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>interaction and procedural modeling, and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:11.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#333333'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>applications of procedural models.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Accepted papers to this special section will be available and accessible to the public through ScienceDirect, Elsevier's leading full text scientific database.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Please send proposals and questions to the guest editors, at<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:bbenes@purdue.edu" title="[GMCP] Compose a new mail to bbenes@purdue.edu"><span style='color:#00759B'>bbenes@purdue.edu</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and at<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:aliaga@purdue.edu" title="[GMCP] Compose a new mail to aliaga@purdue.edu"><span style='color:#00759B'>aliaga@purdue.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>We are looking forward to your contributions to an exciting special section of the Computers & Graphics journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18.0pt;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Best regards,<br>Bedrich Benes (<a href="mailto:bbenes@purdue.edu" title="[GMCP] Compose a new mail to bbenes@purdue.edu"><span style='color:#00759B'>bbenes@purdue.edu</span></a>)<br>Daniel G. 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