What's New - LSU EE 4702-1

Grading Update 4: Course Grades Ready. To see homework grades, coursework averages, and yes, letter grades click here.

Also, the winner of the best alias contest is Icarus.

Good luck, and thank you for your effort in GPU programming!

Grading Update 3: Course grades should be available tomorrow about noon, except those who are graduating who will find out in the usual way. The next grading update should be posted tomorrow by noon.

Grading Update 2: Final Exam Grades Ready. The range was [86,8] with an average of 38 and a median of 35. When you are ready click here. The course grades will probably be available Monday. The next grading update should be posted by Monday 18:00. Good luck on your other exams!

Grading Update 1: Problems 1 and 2 graded. Final Exam grades should be available later tomorrow. The next grading update should posted by about 18:00 tomorrow.

Grading Update 0: Linked the Final Exam to the previous work page. Grading will start this afternoon and final exam grades may possibly be available late Friday afternoon. The next grading update should be posted Friday about 18:00.

Linked the Final Exam review slides to the lecture slides page.

Linked the 2023 Final Exam solution to the previous work page. Try solving the exam before Monday's review section. Try starting with Problem 2, leave Problem 1 for last.

There will be a review session on Monday, 9 December 2024 from 15:30-17:30 in room 3316E PFT. This is 30 minutes later than the originally agreed on time. To help study look at the 2023 final exam (among other material). Problem 1 on that exam is based on 2023 Homework 5, and so students who completed those assignments would be able to solve it faster than others. The other problems on last year's final should be solvable without looking at 2023 assignments.

Linked recent material to the lecture slides page.

For Homework 5 late submissions will be accepted until late Tuesday night (late 3 December) without penalty. The TA-bot will copy submission on Sunday and late Tuesday night.

Homework 5 assigned technically due 1 December 2024 but extensions are possible. Also, the Homework 4 solution has been linked to the previous work page.

Linked the Midterm Exam solution to the previous work page and pushed the midterm exam code to the course repo. It is in the 2024 homework directory.

Homework 4 assigned, due 14 November 2024.

Grading Update 2: Midterm Exam grades ready. Problem 2 (the triangle fan) was much harder than I thought. So, I decided to compute the midterm exam grades with double-credit for Problem 1 (the red triangle, the light-facing triangle, and normals). With that adjustment, the average is 46.8 and the median 49.5. The range is wide, [0,89]. To find the most important grade click here.

Grading Update 1: Grading will start later this afternoon, and grades will probably be available on Monday.

Grading Update 0: Linked the Midterm Exam to the previous work page. Grades may be available on Sunday.

Linked the Midterm Exam review slides to the lecture slides page.

Linked the Homework 2 solution and Homework 3 solution to the previous work page, and pushed the solution code to the repository.

Linked recent demo code and slides to the lecture slides page.

A helpful tip for Problem 2 has been added to the Homework 3 handout. This might help for those who are not sure if their code is actually computing lighting just once per vertex.

Homework 3 assigned, due Friday night, 11 October 2024.

In Homework 2 the radii of the top and bottom circles are not necessarily the same. This has been emphasized in the text of the handout.

Linked Homework 1 solution code to the previous work page. The solution is also in the repo.

Homework 2 assigned, due Wednesday (night) 19 September 2024.

I hope everyone got through Francine okay, especially those living to the southeast.
Due to the lab being closed for flood remediation work, and then the lab machines being powered off for Francine, the Homework 1 deadline has been pushed to Saturday, 14 September 2024. The homework will automatically be collected by the TA-bot on Sunday morning. I hope to see everyone in class on Friday.

There will not be class on Wednesday.

~~Class on Wednesday via Zoom, Weather Permitting~~

As most people reading this probably know LSU has announced that classes are to be held remotely on Wednesday and Thursday (11 and 12 September 2024). One can assume LSU did not intend that classes be held while winds are howling, blown items are crashing, and lights are flickering. Because EE 4702 is from 9:30-10:20 strong winds will likely not be a problem, but if the current forecast holds some of us may be busy securing outdoor furniture and engaged in other storm-prep efforts at that time. For that reason class ~~may or may~~ will not be held. A decision will be made by 22:30 tonight (Tuesday, 10 September). ~~Zoom information will be E-mailed later today.~~

Those that want to keep up with the math material might want to look at resources linked to the math slides. These include an appendix on linear algebra from the Real-Time Rendering text (the appendix is free), and an interactive linear algebra site.

David M. Koppelman - koppel@ece.lsu.edu	Modified 26 Dec 2024 8:40 (1440 UTC)
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