Preface

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the International Workshop on Volume Graphics (VG05). This workshop, held in Stony Brook, New York, USA on June 20-21 2005, was organized as a follow-up to the successful biennial international workshops on volume graphics, which were held in Swansea, UK (1999), Stony Brook, New York, USA (2001), and Tokyo, Japan (2003). VGG5 was part of Stony Brook Graphics Week, consisting ofVG05, Computer Graphics International 2005 (CGI05) and the Point-Based Graphics Symposium 2005 (PBGG5). This VG05 workshop is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee evGTC) and the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics) in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH. This year the proceedings are co-published by IEEE VGTC and Eurographics for the first time, two of the major organizations in the field of computer graphics.