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The Final Exam will be in the University assigned examination period: Monday, May 3rd, 2021, 2:45-4:45pm Madison time. These instructions are basically the same as the previous mini exams, except that the exam block is 2 hours, and you will have up to 30 minutes for each exam part. That is, you must take the two 30 minute quizzes within the 2 hour exam block. You can start when you like, as long as you finish by 4:45. Read more…

The third “Mini-Exam” (I hate to call it a midterm because there are 3 of them, they are small, and its not the middle of the semester) will be Thursday, April 22nd during the class period. These instructions are unchanged from prior exams, but are reproduced here so you have easy access to them. The content list is below. Basic Info Basic Info The rationale for this style of exam is discussed on the Course Web: https://graphics. Read more…

Here is the current plan for class… Workbooks: Clarifications to the grading policy to make it easier to estimate grades. WB11 is due Wednesday, April 14th There is no workbook due the week of the 19th-23rd. Workbook 12 is a 2 week workbook (it counts double). WB12 (Graphics Town) may not be available until Wednesday, April 14th. Either way, it will be due on Wednesday, April 28th. There will be a separate late policy, announced later. Read more…

The Grading page describes the class policy. This update is intended to make some elements more specific by clarifying how the rules will be interpreted. In all cases, these are meant to be in the students advantage. Grading in class is intended to be “holistic” - at the end, we consider everything, and make judgments based all of the information available to us. Students are more than numbers. However, we also appreciate that students need to predict how well they are doing, especially if they are at risk of getting an undesirable grade. Read more…

See the Mini-Exam 2: Rules and Information page instead. See also the Course Outline: Videos and Slides outline. This is an outline of the topics covered during Weeks 5-8, which will be the focus of Mini-Exam 2. Because these topics build on earlier topics, things from the first weeks of class are still relevant (although they will not be tested directly). Shapes Basics curves vs. areas vs. surfaces vs. volumes implicit vs. Read more…

The second “Mini-Exam” (I hate to call it a midterm because there are 3 of them, they are small, and its not the middle of the semester) will be Thursday, March 25th during the class period. The rationale for this style of exam is discussed on the Course Web: https://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/Courses/559-sp2021/policies/exams/ The exam will be semi-synchronous: you must take it during the class period (11am-12:15pm, Madison time, Thursday March 25th), but it is up to you when during that 75 window that you take it. Read more…

The first “Mini-Exam” (I hate to call it a midterm because there are 3 of them, they are small, and its not the middle of the semester) will be Thursday, February 25th during the class period. The rationale for this style of exam is discussed on the Course Web: https://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/Courses/559-sp2021/policies/exams/ The exam will be semi-synchronous: you must take it during the class period (11am-12:15pm, Madison time, Thursday February 25th), but it is up to you when during that 75 window that you take it. Read more…