InfoTrax® FlexCloud Developer Portal

InfoTrax® FlexCloud Developer Portal

InfoTrax® Systems, a trusted global name in the Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) software, is an industry leading provider of backend operations systems and online distributor tools for the Direct Sales industry. In order to target diverse clientele and simplify propriety codebase, Infotrax decided to ship their services to their customers as subscription-based APIs instead of their legacy full-stack solutions.

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Project Haze

Project Haze

Project Haze is a site-specific immersive mixed-media installation that tries to invoke the feeling of 'lightness' among its users.

The installation, which works both a day as well as a night installation, takes inspiration from Gaston Bachelard's 'Poetics of Air' and explores the notion of using mist to create a 'ganzfeld effect'. In such a situation, the audience gets separated from their surroundings and immersed in a uniform stimulation field of sound, light, and touch. The result is a heightened sensory perception of all the senses and the flow of individual imagination.

The day installation relies on sunlight and wind to create movement in the mist which seems to immerse from the ground and fly upwards lifting the observer with them. The cool sensation of minute water droplets steals the heat from the sun, leaving a cooling sensation with them, the lack of obstacles allows them to play and explore the 'materiality of the cloud'. The viewer also has a chance to spot a circular rainbow against the sun, which seems to participate in their movement adding more delight to the experience.

During the night, the artist uses projection mapping to introduce volume to an otherwise invisible installation which again reinforces the principles of sensorial engagement, freedom in seclusion, and the materiality of mist with its audience.

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Motion and Code: Explorations

Motion and Code: Explorations

For a long time, I have been interesting in capturing the style of Italian master and other icons in visual art history in code and displaying it as a live camera view. It would be interesting to see the world with the eyes of these masters and will open a window into understanding Modern art for a lot of people. Below are 4 examples of such works, but more are underway.

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Project Bhukasur

Project Bhukasur

The SLA III course revolved around implementing a successful marketing strategy.
THE BRIEF: A group of 5 members were suppose to decide an event and market it to the whole community.

Our team picked up the topic of avoiding food wastage, and the audience of our interest was NID Gandhinagar residents. Since, all the students and faculty in the campus does not exceed 300 individuals, the quality of food remains quite good all the year long. Until recently!

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3D printing: Chess pieces

Earlier this year, I tried my hands on the 3D modelling software by Autodesk, Fusion 360. I self assigned myself to create some custom 3D chess pieces with the software. I only had one constraint. None of my chess pieces will have any curved surface. The exercise let me to create the following chess pieces. I tried to maintain the basic shape of the chess pieces and slowly extrude and removed cuboid out of them to add more details.

After nearly 107 iterations I finalised the form of these chess pieces and decided to 3D print the rook. Following is how the 3D print turned out. I intend to get this all 3D printed and create a chess set out of it.

Fingerprints of a City

Fingerprints of a City

In his book, The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch attempted to break down the global form of the cityscape into many components like a path, an edge, a district, a node and a landmark. While these concepts help one in the describing the spatial arrangement of a city, it is sufficiently static in describing its rapidly changing identities. These identities change with time, occasion and context of the user. Hence, our attempt was to develop a more persona-based approach in envisioning a city.

Our fictional narrative revolves around the life of a detective who tries to track down a local drug cartel and in the process gets acquainted with the area near Nehru Bridge, Ahmedabad.

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A BITSian's Life

Campus life at BITS Pilani is different from other Indian colleges. This project tried at capture the various moods I experienced here in a duration of 4 years.

Courtesy:
Panel partner - Vishal Chundawat
Juniors - Saket Nihal, Kshitij Kant
Seniors - Tanay Upadhyay, Anirudh Pathak, Sandy, Prankur

V for Vendetta

One of my favourite movie character from the intensely engaging movie, V for Vendetta. The dialogues and plot of movie make it a remarkable movie to add to your watchlist.

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot…
— V

Final sketch

[V proceeds to kill all fingermen with his knives before they manage to reload]
Creedy: [desperately shooting at the approaching V] Die! Die! Why won’t you die?... Why won’t you die?
V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy. And ideas are bulletproof.