Data Visualization -- Storytelling via Navigation: A Novel Approach to Animation for Scientific Visualization -- A Deep Dive into Decades of Baseball's Recorded Statistics -- Sketching and Multi-Touch Interaction -- A Sketch-Based Generation System for Oriental Cloud Pattern Design -- D-Sweep: Using Profile Snapping for 3D Object Extraction from Single Image -- Fixit: A 3D Jigsaw Puzzle Game Using Multi-touch Gestures -- Towards an Intelligent Framework for Pressure-Based 3D Curve Drawing -- Aesthetics and Smart Tools for Artists Analysis of Visual Elements in Logo Design -- Controllable and Real-Time Reproducible Perlin Noise -- Emotional Line: Showing Emotions through the Sharpness, Height, Width and Speed of a Series of Concatenated Digital Shifting Curves -- Application Friendly Voxelization on GPU by Geometry Splitting -- Smart Tools for 3D Contents -- A Pattern-Based Tool for Creating Virtual Cinematography in Interactive Storytelling -- Semantically Consistent Hierarchical Decomposition of Virtual Urban Environments -- A New Way to Model Physics-Based Topology Transformations: Splitting MAT -- 3D Artistic Face Transformation with Identity Preservation -- Posters -- Real Time Visualization of Large Data Using Clustered Projections -- Crowdsourcing 3D Motion Reconstruction -- Understanding Which Graph Depictions Are Best for Viewers -- A New Modeling Pipeline for Physics-Based Topological Discontinuities: The DYNAMe Process.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2014, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in August 2014. The 14 full and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: data visualization; sketching and multi-touch interaction; aesthetics and smart tools for artists; smart tools for 3D contents; and posters.