NICOGRAPH International will be held in Iwate, Japan on April 30th and May 1st 2005. NICOGRAPH PAPER CONTEST has been held more than 20 years as the most authorized CG(Computer Graphics) conference in Japan. The society for Art and science has organized NICOGRAPH PAPER CONTEST from 2000 and began the international conference from 2002. NICOGRAPH does not limit to technical papers, artistic papers, such as interactive art, web design and digital contents, etc. are also welcome. We welcome submission of your paper to this conference.

• [Date:] Apr. 30(Sat.) and May 1(Sun.), 2005
• [Place:] Morioka Grand Hotel
• Organized by The Art and Science Society
• Supported by Digital Content Association Japan

• Important date
• Paper Due -------------------- 1st Feb. 2005
• Notification of Acceptance------- 1st Mar,2005 3rd March 2005
• Camera Ready Due------------- 22nd Mar. 2005 25th March 2005
• Topics and keyword
  CG(Computer Graphics), Arts content, Multimedia, VR(Virtual Reality), Interactive Arts, Design Contents, Web design, Movie production, etc.
• Submission Infomation
• LENGTH: You are allowed 2 pages abstract for submission. Camera ready is maximum 6 pages including all figures, tables, references and appendixes.
• MARGINS:
  • Size: 6.9inch x 8.9inch(175mm x 226mm)
  • Left margin: 0.75inch(19mm)
  • Top margin: 1inch(25mm)
  • Text should be appeared in two columns.
  • On the first page, title, author(s) and affiliation(s) should be appeared in one column.
• LANGUAGE: All proposal must be in English.
• SUBMISSION: You submit the paper via web page. PDF, PS and ms word files are acceptable. The document size must not exceed 10MB.(We have limitation of web system.)
• Contact and further information
• Hiroki Takahashi (Office of The Art and Science)
• Question for conference hall
• Tadahiro Fujimoto (Local arragement)
• Committee board members

General Chair	Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
General Co-char	Seiichi Nishihara(University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Local Chair	Norishige Chiba(Iwate University, Japan)

• Committee members

Takayuki ITO(Japan IBM)

Sakae UNO(Japan IBM)

Yoshio Ohno(Keio University)

Kouji OYAMADA(Kyoto University)

Atsushi KASAO(Tokyo Institute of Polytechnology)

Shigeru KURIYAMA(Toyohashi University of Technology)

Takami YASUDA(Nagoya university)

Kazunobu MURAOKA(Tohoku Institute of Technology)

Fumio SUMI(FUJITSU)

Koukichi SUGIHARA(Tokyo University)

Saeko TAKAGI(Wakayama University)

Norishige CHIBA(Iwate University)

Hidekazu TSUJIAI(Kinki University)

Hayato TOGAWA(Shobi University)

Naoko TOSA(MIT)

Tamami NOJI(Shobi University)

Takanori NAGAE(Tokyo Institute of Polytechnology)

Mitsunori MAKINO(Chuo University)

Hiroshi MASUDA(University of Tokyo)

Kazunori MIYATA(JAIST)

Yuko YAMANOUCHI(NHK)

Shigeki YOKOI(Nagoya University)

Tadahiro Fujimoto(Iwate University, Japan)