LSU EE 4702-1 - What's New

Grading Update 6:Course Grades Ready Course grades, homework grades, and course averages are available. Curious? Then click here. (You may need to press refresh due to a bug in our Web server.) Have a good winter break!

Grading Update 5: Final Exam Grades Ready The average was 59.9 and the range [17,89]. To find the most important statistic click here. (You may need to press refresh due to a bug in our Web server.) Course grades should be available later today. The next grading update will be posted by 18:00.

Grading Update 4: Problems 1-4 graded. Exam grades will be available later today, possibly within an hour, but also possibly 16:00 or later. Depends on interruptions.

Grading Update 3: Problems 1 and 2 graded. Grades should be available some time tomrrow. The next grading update may be posted by about 14:00.

Grading Update 2: No grading yet. Grading will start tomorrow, and exam grades may be available Wednesday evening. The next grading update will be posted Thursday by 19:00.

Grading Update 1: No grading yet. Grading may start Wednesday night, but due to other obligations grading may not be completed until Friday. The next grading update should be posted by on Wednesday 19:00.

Grading Update 0: Linked the Final Exam to the previous work page. Grading may start this evening, but due to other obligations grading may not be completed until Friday. The next grading update should be posted by 19:00 tonight.

Updated links to lecture slides and demos used in class on the lecture slides page.

Linked the complete 2015 final exam solution to the previous work page.

Linked the Homework 7 solution to the lecture slides page.

Linked the final exam review to the lecture slides page. Check back later today and tomorrow for the Homework 7 solution and the solution to last year's final exam.

Linked the Homework 6 solution to the previous work page and checked the code into the repo.

For Homework 7 use a machine equipped with GPUs of CC 3.0 or higher. See the table on the system status page.

Homework 7 assigned, due Thursday, 1 December 2016.

Due to a bug, the textures may appear differently in the Plain and Set 2 shaders. This is due to an incorrect texture aspect ratio set in render_link_1. The correct value of that variable is 8.5/11. As a result of this bug the text rendered using the Plain shader will look stretched out along the x axis.

Homework 6 assigned, due Wednesday, 16 November 2016.

Linked the Midterm Exam solution to the previous work page. Also corrected the link to the 2015 final exam partial solution.

Grading Update 2:Midterm Exam Grades Ready The median grade was 47, with a range of [25,88]. To find your grade click here.

Grading Update 1: Problems 1 and 2 graded. Grades will be available later this afternoon. The next grading update will be posted by approximately 18:00.

Grading Update 0: The midterm exam linked to the previous work page. Grading will start later this afternoon or tomorrow, and grades should be available tomorow. The next grading update will be posted by about 16:00 tomorrow.

Linked a partial solution to the 2015 Final Exam to the previous work page. Note that Problem 5 (unsolved so far) is very similar to this semester's Homework 5.

Linked the midterm exam review slides to the lecture slides page. Also linked 2014 Homework 6 solution (using a line strip primitive as an input to the rendering pipeline in order to render a spiral) to the lecture slides page.

Linked the 2015 Final Exam to the lecture slides page, and fixed several issues in the 2009 Midterm Exam and its solution.

Linked homework solution code for 1-5 to previous work page.

Moved the deadline for Homework 5 up one day to Tuesday night, 18 October 2016.

Linked the ad-hoc geometry shader code in which an extra triangle was added to the lecture slides pages.

The solution code for Homework 3 and 4 has been checked into the repository. Issuing a git pull command should bring it in, look for the file hw03-sol.cc.

Homework 5 assigned, due Monday, 17 October 2016.

The deadline for Homework 4 has been changed to Monday night, 10 October 2016. Homework 5 will be assigned before that time.

Linked the textures demo code and the 2015 Homework 3 solution (the scuffed platform) to the lecture slides page.

Problem 2 in Homework 3 has been moved to Homework 4. Homework 3 is still due Friday, 30 September 2016 and Homework 4 is due Wednesday, 5 October 2016.

Updated the screenshot on the Homework 3 assignment, and also pointed out that for Problem 1 that one should compare the text on vertical links to those to the long ones on top.

Homework 3 assigned, due Friday, 30 September 2016.

Updated the lecture notes and code on the lecture slides page.

There was an error in the homework code that may have prevented the cube from being drawn on the thing of beads. The error is in hw02-graphics.cc, executing git pull and recompiling should fix the problem. Or, you can hand-edit hw02-graphics.cc: change line 324 to: render_it(a,b,c,2); (change the 3 to a 2). Thank you to the student who pointed out the problem.

Added a linear algebra reference to the references page.

Added remote access instructions for Mac OSX and Linux to the EE 4755 procedures page. Instructions for Microsoft Windows were added earlier today.

Added remote access instructions for Microsoft Windows machines to the EE 4755 procedures page. Instructions for Mac OSX and Linux will be posted later today.

Detailed instructions for remote access will be posted tomorrow. For now: Install a VPN client, see these instructions. Find a computer name here. Connect to that computer using PuTTY or some other SSH client.. Many Unix-derived systems, including Mac OSX, have an ssh client built in (no PuTTY needed). For those use, ssh -X NAME.ece.lsu.edu -l ee4702XX. Don't expect graphics to work.

Homework 2 assigned, due Wednesday, 21 September 2016. For best results start early.

Due to technical problems all class accounts have been reset. The userid and passwords are the same, but the accounts are now back to the state they were in before you first logged in. When you next log in you will need to repeat the account setup instructions. (You may log in now if you like.) A copy was made of all accounts' contents before the reset, however if you want something from that account (other than hw01.cc) please ask. Your hw01.cc files will be returned to you one way or another. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Homework 1 solutions copied. Due to technical issues acknowledgements have not been E-mailed.

Updated the code examples on the code examples page, including the "cards" and "prism/tower" demo shown today.

Homework 1 assigned, due Friday, 9 September 2016 (after the lab closes). Class accounts will be given out tomorrow by E-mail.