An integrated event was held at the Air Force Golden Jubilee School on May 10. The individual results are as follows:

Tic-Tac Tech Quiz – Winners
Natasha Arya
Arihant Hemendra

Congratulations to the winners!!

The Code to Learn Contest 2019 was organised by Google India, and the individual results are as follows:

Sagnik Anupam — Winner, Class 12
Sarthak Mangla — Winner, Class 10
Anmol Singh Dhaliwal [NE] — Winner, Class 11

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Toyota Hackathon was organised by the Indian Road Safety Campaign and Toyota. The first round (9th December 2019) and second round (13th December 2019) of the same were online, followed by the onsite finals held at IIT Delhi on 1st-2nd February 2020. The following teams qualified for the finals:

Team 2977F5
Somesh Kar
Pulkit Garg
Team 2977F5 also won the first prize, which included two gold medals for the participants and a plaque for the school.

Team Exun Clan
Angad Singh
Ashvin Verma

Team Aviato
Sarthak Mangla
Ishir Bhardwaj

Team Pheonix
Aryaman Chandra
Akshit Kumar

Team Bits
Manan Roongta [NE]
Sambhav Gupta [NE]

Congratulations to everyone!

Greetings!

In light of the global situation, we, at Exun Clan, hope that all of you are staying safe and healthy. We understand that staying at home in this uncertain situation can get overwhelming at times, but it also provides you with a good opportunity to make the best use of your time. Learning doesn’t need to come to a halt! 

Keeping that in mind, we would like to share some resources of different technology and creative fields with you to get you started: exunclan.com/resources. We encourage everyone, from any school, with an interest to learn to go through these! 

We have also set up a Google Classroom — DPS RK Puram students in classes 6-12th can register to be a part of it by following the instructions received on their official school email ID, so that we can help you in the best possible way and so that you can engage in discussions with us and others. Exun Members will be available in this classroom to guide you and answer any doubts that you may have. We will also be posting information about any opportunities or happenings in Exun leading up to our annual inductions — please refer to the email you have received for further details. 

Students not from DPS RK Puram, who want to discuss anything or have any doubts, feel free to email us at exun@dpsrkp.net, and Exun members will be glad to help!

Exun Clan will soon also be conducting its annual inductions, e-Lite 2020, for classes 6-12. We hope that you use these resources to explore and pick up a skill you like before the inductions come around. In the past, we have inducted students through e-Lite to work in different fields such as creative (web design and development, audio-video editing, graphic design, 3-D design), app development, game development, programming, quizzing, linguistics, crossword, hardware, group discussion, cryptic hunts, and we hope to recruit passionate individuals this year as well. 

We hope that you use this time fruitfully, and as always, we’re happy to help — please feel free to message or email us in case you have any questions or concerns.

Have fun learning, and stay safe!

Exun Clan is back with its annual inductions, e-Lite 2020 — an opportunity for you to be a member of the Exun family! We’re going completely online this year, and we hope to provide you with a platform to not just showcase your skills but also hone them with our help. Regardless of whichever field(s) you’re interested in, the experience as an e-Lite participant is guaranteed to be worthwhile! 

To register for e-Lite, visit exun.co/elite, (make sure you are signed in with your official school email ID), and select the departments you want to participate in. Please register by 11:59pm, Sunday, 14th June 2020.

Feel free to email us at exun@dpsrkp.net if you have any questions.

We hope to see you participate in e-Lite 2020!

Silico Battles v14.1 was held on 15th and 16th November 2018 at Ahlcon Public School, Mayur Vihar. Exun Clan bagged the overall winners trophy.
The individual results are as follows:

1st – Web Design
Angad Singh
Simarjiv Singh

1st – Audio Editing
Gopal Krishna

2nd – Logo Programming
DPS EOK

2nd – Programming
Naman Dhingra
Shashwat Chandra

3rd – Surprise
Alhad Sethi

3rd – PC Gaming
Karan Handa

3rd – Cryptic Hunt
Aaryak Garg

Congratulations to all the winners!

Greetings! It has been noticed that many students appearing in Exun e-Lite find the programming paper quite difficult. Keeping this in mind, we are organising a Competitive Programming Training Session to give a strong base for students of DPS RK Puram. We will definitely be looking forward to working with students who do well in these sessions. At the end of the sessions, the students will be familiar with some of the basic problem solving algorithms (binary search, greedy, and dynamic programming are some of the most popular ones) and should be fairly comfortable with implementing simple solutions. Those who practice hard may even be able to clear the Zonal Informatics Olympiad (which gives students bonus points for admission in IIIT Delhi) and, thereafter, the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (11th and 12th graders clearing this can get admission in IIIT Hyderabad while 12th graders can be admitted in the Chennai Mathematical Institute). Aside from these advantages, we believe that education in computer science is not truly complete until you have given problem solving your best shot. We look forward to helping you out! If you’re interested in participating in these sessions or know someone who might be, please contact us at exun@dpsrkp.net.

By Pulkit Garg

The first image is a TV feed and the second is from ProjectCarst

You probably thought that video game graphics have gotten pretty good, but did you realize that they have become this good? As programmers and designers are able to constantly improve video game graphics, will there ever be a point where they become equivalent to real life?

That moment has finally come.

Moore’s Law, a computing term which originated around 1970, states that the processing power of computers doubles every two years. This directly leads to computer graphics increasing significantly over the years.

So how does all of this matter in the game development industry?  The best way to increase the graphical fidelity of a game is to add realistic lighting: Left with no lightning, right with a single light source.

Left with no lightning, right with a single light source.

But while adding lights in a game is relatively easy, and something we’ve been doing for decades, getting the light to bounce off, reflect, refract, and move around realistically is a much more difficult problem to solve.

The forefront of photorealistic graphics today is seen in the computer-generated imagery used in movies. If you’ve seen  Avengers: Infinity War, you could reasonably argue that CGI is pretty much photorealistic already, and that’s because big-budget movies use a lighting technique called ray tracing for their CGI.

Ray tracing calculates the path of a beam of light backwards from your eye (or viewpoint) to the objects that the light interacted with. It’s what makes reflections, shadows, and refractions look extremely realistic. But here’s the catch, “Ray tracing is so computationally intensive that it takes days, or even weeks, to render these worlds even with many computers working together in render farms.”

So you may ask the question, with the immense increase in computational power, why I do not have ray tracing? The answer sadly is, you can have it, but for 1.4 lakhs.

With the launch of the RTX graphics cards, NVIDIA is bridging the gap between pre rendered and real time graphics. This new series is specially developed with ray tracing in mind and with the launch of some big AAA ray tracing supported games coming up, including the likes of Battlefield Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I am sure everyone’s excited. Are you?

Infoyage 2018 was held on the 25th of October at Cambridge School Indirapuram. Exun Clan bagged the overall. Individual Results are as follows.

Crossword – Winners
Vinayak Pachnanda
Aravind Ashok

Programming – Winner
Shashwat Chandra

Gaming – Winners
Karan Handa
Mehul Gupta

Programming – Runners Up
Naman Dhingra
Aditya Agrawal

Group Discussion – Runners Up
Arihant Hemendra

Quiz – Second Runners Up
Aravind Ashok
Shashwat Mundra

Shout-out to Arihant Hemendra for signing up for GD at the last moment and winning!

Abstract

Computers and related devices have formed part of our daily livelihood. With portability currently not being an issue, it is not abnormal to find one with a smartphone, laptop, iPod, and iPad among a few others all at a go. With time, human interaction with all these devices seem to be cognitive demanding and hence the need to develop

This is a research paper that is focused on looking at the current trends in the application of subliminal human interaction with computer devices and the impact that this has on modern technology. Furthermore, this will enable us to extrapolate and try to predict future trends and areas that this technology would likely impact as precisely as possible. The first part of this paper will introduce the paper, clearly defining relevant terms and giving a brief history of the subject. The second part of the paper will be a discussion of how modern technology has been impacted by subliminal human interaction. Diverse areas, more so in the field of Computer Science, will be looked at. Finally, a conclusion will be drawn on whether this technology is worth pursuing or whether there are other alternatives that have benefits that outweigh those brought by subliminal technology.

Read the complete research paper here.