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We report on the outcomes of a large multi-disciplinary project targeting the physical reproduction and virtual documentation and exploration of the Olivetti sandcast, a monumental (over 100m2) semi-abstract frieze by the Italian sculptor Costantino Nivola. After summarizing the goal and motivation of the project, we provide details on the acquisition and processing steps that led to the creation of a 3D digital model. We then discuss the technical details and the challenges that we have faced for the physical fabrication process of a massive physical replica, which was the centerpiece of a recent exhibition. We finally discuss the design and application of an interactive web-based tool for the exploration of an annotated virtual replica. The main components of the tool will be released as open source., Session 5, Moonisa Ahsan, Giuliana Altea, Fabio Bettio, Marco Callieri, Antonella Camarda, Paolo Cignoni, Enrico Gobbetti, Paolo Ledda, Alessandro Lutzu, Fabio Marton, Giuseppe Mignemi, and Federico Ponchio

We propose ReviewerNet, an online, interactive visualization system aimed to improve the reviewer selection process in the academic domain. Given a paper submitted for publication, we assume that good candidate reviewers can be chosen among the authors of a small set of pertinent papers; ReviewerNet supports the construction of such set of papers, by visualizing and exploring a literature citation network. Then, the system helps to select reviewers that are both well distributed in the scientific community and that do not have any conflict-of-interest, by visualising the careers and co-authorship relations of candidate reviewers. The system is publicly available, and is demonstrated in the field of Computer Graphics., Smart Tools and Apps for Graphics - Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference, Full Papers, 11, 19, Mario Salinas, Daniela Giorgi, Federico Ponchio, and Paolo Cignoni, CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Graphics systems and interfaces

The Authors present CENOBIUM, a web-based system designed to support the work of art historians. It provides access to multimedia content and related descriptive text on a specific topic: capitals in Romanesque cloisters. This paper discusses the motivation behind the decision to develop this web resource, taken more than ten years ago. It describes the initial design of the often system and how it evolved to keep pace with technological developments. In a context where the results of ICT-CH projects (digital tools, websites) have life span barely exceeding the timeframe of the actual project, CENOBIUM can be considered a success. It has been operating and steadily been updated with new content and latest technologies throughout its decade-long life.

We introduce PileBars, a new class of animated thumbnail-bars aimed at easing the browsing of very large image datasets (thousands of images). Since the bar is meant to be just one element of a GUI, it covers only a small portion of the screen; yet it provides a global view of the entire dataset, without any scrolling panels. Instead, thumbnails are dynamically rearranged, resized and reclustered into adaptive layouts during the entire browsing process. The objective is to make the user able, at the same time, to accurately pinpoint a specific image (even among semantically close ones), and to jump anywhere to "distant" parts of the dataset. The used thumbnail layouts also maximize temporal coherence, thus allowing for smooth animations from one layout to the next. The system is very general: it can be driven by any application-specific image-to-image semantic distance function, and respects any user-defined total ordering of the images; the ordering can be either inferred from the semantic or be chosen independently from it, depending on the application. The applicability of the resulting system is tested in a number of practical applications: browsing image collections from the web or personal achieves; navigation of 3D virtual scenes based on calibrated pictures; selection of a frame in a movie. In each test scenario, proper distance and ordering functions are fed to the system.