I think I'm in that camp. I got a D in linear algebra, my lowest grade in university and one of my lowest grades ever, but excelled in computer graphics, and e

I think I'm in that camp. I got a D in linear algebra, my lowest grade in university and one of my lowest grades ever, but excelled in computer graphics, and even got permission to take a graduate level course in it for elective credit as an undergrad. My recollection is that the problem sets in the linear algebra class seemed really abstract and vague, and I couldn't reason through it very well because I couldn't visualize what we learned, given the information from the class. Computer graphics, however, let me visualize what we were covered, and suddenly everything made sense. I could see, literally, what the end result was supposed to be, and it just clicked. Now that I think about it, it's kind of a shame I had the linear algebra class first. The CG experience would have helped me out quite a bit.