This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2008, held in Rennes, France in August 2008.

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