Techesta 2018 was held on 1st & 2nd November at DAV Public School, Sreshtha Vihar. The individual results are as follows:

App Development – Winners
Natasha Arya
Sarah Randhawa

Game Development – Runners up
Pulkit Garg
Kabir Mathur

CORE 11 was held at Delhi Public School Dwarka from 1st-2nd November, 2018.
The individual results are as follows:

Crossword – Winners
Sumay Mishra
Vinayak Pachnanda

Programming – Winners
Naman Dhingra
Bharat Goyal

Encore (Cryptic Hunt) – Runners up [Whole Clan]

Peripetetia (Surprise) – Runners Up
Aaryak Garg
Aditya Batra
Sumay Mishra
Ritvik Gupta [RK]

Creative event – Runners up
Aaryak Garg
Anirudh Chauhan
Natasha Arya
Arunim Gupta

Group Discussion – Runners up
Sameer Chadha

Junior Quiz – Second Runners Up
Shashwat Mundra
Ashvin Verma

Shoutout to Yash Wardhan and Angad Singh for helping in the creative event!

Congratulations to all the winners!

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.

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!

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?

Esya 2018 was held at IIIT Delhi from 17th-18th August. The results were as follows:

Runners Up – Launch
Akshay Khandelwal
Shiv Sethi
Saksham Arora [NE]
Shaurya Jain [NE]

Runners Up – Techathlon + Toast to Code
Shashwat Goel
Bharat Goyal
Kalash Gupta [Non-RKP]

Runners Up – Prosort
Bharat Goyal
Kalash Gupta [Non-RKP]

Runners Up – Procon Jr.
Aditya Aggarawal [NE]

Second Runners Up – Code in Less
Shashwat Goel
Kalash Gupta [Non-RKP]

Second Runners Up – Design360
Neel Lakhwani

Congratulations to all the winners!

Syntax 2018 was held at Delhi Public School International, Saket on 4 August, 2018. The results are as follows:

SyntaxDesigning – Winners
Natasha Arya

SyntaxPresentation – Runners Up
Kabir Mathur
Shivansh Gupta [NE]

SyntaxQuiz – Runners Up
Udit Malik
Kushagra Gupta

SyntaxCrossword – Winners
Udit Malik
Vinayak Pachnanda

SyntaxGaming – Winners
Karan Handa

SyntaxProgramming – Winners
Bharat Goyal
Shashwat Chandra

Congratulations to all the winners!

Minet X 2018 was held at Mother’s International School Aurobindo Marg from 8th-9th August 2018.

The Individual Results are as follows:
Programming – Winners
Aman Verma
Shashwat Goel

Alphanode 2018 was held at DPS Gurgaon Sector 45 on 27 July 2018. DPS RK Puram emerged as the overall winners!

Decodenode: Winners
Aaryak Garg

CODE 2018 was held at Apeejay School, Noida on 27th July, 2018. The results are as follows.

CODE++ : Runners up

Vibhu Dubey [AdHoc]
Sarthak Mangla