Fighting Pandemics With Computer Graphics and Applications

The articles in this special section focus on methodologies that have been or could be used to help fight pandemics with computer graphics (CG). The development of new algorithms and computational solutions to simulate, visualize, and predict scenarios in the pandemic world has been a reality in recent years. Many researchers at universities and companies pursued the objective of proposing alternatives that would help people in this challenging period. Many of these alternatives involve solutions that contain techniques such as image processing, visualization, animation, and interaction, in short, processing and generation of graphic data. All these proposed techniques and methodologies are of great value to society and must be recorded in an appropriate manner and for an appropriate period of time, so that they can continue to be used, applied, and improved.