This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2006, held in Vancouver, Canada, July 2006. The book presents 19 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on intelligent text processing, perceptive systems, smart visualization, visual features, sketching and graphical abstraction, intelligent image and film composing, as well as smart interaction.

Intelligent Text Processing.- Efficient View Management for Dynamic Annotation Placement in Virtual Landscapes.- Predictive Text Fitting.- Agent-Based Annotation of Interactive 3D Visualizations.- Perceptive Systems.- Experiments in the Perception of Causality.- Causal Perception in Virtual Environments.- Deep Surrender: Musically Controlled Responsive Video.- Smart Visualization.- Hierarchical-Temporal Data Visualization Using a Tree-Ring Metaphor.- AudioRadar: A Metaphorical Visualization for the Navigation of Large Music Collections.- Visually Supporting Depth Perception in Angiography Imaging.- Visual Features, Sketching and Graphical Abstraction.- A Modified Laplacian Smoothing Approach with Mesh Saliency.- 3D Sketching with Profile Curves.- Feature-Preserving, Accuracy-Controllable Freeform Surfaces for Web-Based Surgical Simulations.- The Sketch L-System: Global Control of Tree Modeling Using Free-Form Strokes.- Intelligent Image and Film Composing.- Through-the-Lens Cinematography.- Explorations in Declarative Lighting Design.- A Photographic Composition Assistant for Intelligent Virtual 3D Camera Systems.- Smart Interaction.- Copy-Paste Synthesis of 3D Geometry with Repetitive Patterns.- Smart Sticky Widgets: Pseudo-haptic Enhancements for Multi-Monitor Displays.- The EnLighTable: Design of Affordances to Support Collaborative Creativity.- Short Papers.- ArTVox: Evolutionary Composition in Visual and Sound Domains.- An Account of Image Perceptual Understanding Based on Epistemic Attention and Reference.- Using Rule Based Selection to Support Change in Parametric CAD Models.- NEAR: Visualizing Information Relations in a Multimedia Repository.- A Model for Interactive Web Information Retrieval.- Representing and Querying Line Graphs in Natural Language: The iGraph System.- MusicSpace: A Multi Perspective Browser for Music Albums.- Large Display Size Enhances User Experience in 3D Games.