Matthias Zwicker

1 review
Average rating: 5.00

This professor has taught: CMSC389U, CMSC398K, CMSC427, CMSC740, GEMS296, GEMS297, GEMS396, GEMS397, GEMS496, GEMS497

Grades

During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.42 between 345 students*

Grade Distribution+-0510152025303540455055606570% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 10.72%
A: 32.75%
A+: 24.93%
B-: 2.61%
B: 4.93%
B+: 9.57%
C-: 0.87%
C: 1.16%
C+: 1.74%
D: 0.87%
F: 1.74%
W: 5.22%
other: 2.9%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.
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Matthias Zwicker
CMSC740

Anonymous
05/22/2021 This review was submitted while most classes were online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It may not be indicative of a regular semester.		Great course for learning about how to simulate light transport and geometry processing. Personally I found the first half about light transport way more interesting and wish he spent much more time on it. The second half about geometry processing (shape deformation, differential geometry, shape reconstruction from 3D points) was not really my cup of tea and I found it difficult to pay attention during lecture, but thankfully we didn't have any assignments on this. The last two assignments are difficult and involve a little bit of math (look up "rendering equation" and "bidirectional reflectance distribution function"). The final project is open ended and basically involves implementing a paper of your choosing that's relevant to the class. As long as he approves your topic idea and you do a half decent job implementing/writing about it, you'll do well. He grades generously, curving the final, and made it so a 91% in the course is an A (for our class).