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Landscape architect Kevin Sloan explains the design decisions and inspiration behind three of his groundbreaking landscaping and building projects.

Explore a comprehensive lecture on the role of chromatin 'readers' in shaping the metabolic landscape. Delve into the intricate world of chromatin organization and gene regulation as part of the "Interdisciplinary aspects of chromatin organization and gene regulation" program. Gain insights from expert Chandrima Das over the course of 1 hour and 56 minutes. Discover how chromatin, a complex polymer containing genetic code, is arranged in four dimensions (space and time) and how its epigenetic state and 3D organization influence gene regulation. Learn about recent advances in genomics, high-resolution microscopy, and single-cell measurements that have revolutionized our understanding of chromatin's complex organization. Explore the multidisciplinary approach required to integrate diverse information into a coherent understanding of chromatin dynamics. Benefit from discussions on novel experimental observations, phenomenology, physical principles, and data-driven methods relevant to chromatin research. This lecture is part of a larger program featuring a pedagogical workshop and scientific meeting, designed to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration and advance the field of chromatin studies.

Explore a 24-minute conference talk on chromatin 'readers' and their role in shaping metabolic landscapes. Delve into the interdisciplinary aspects of chromatin organization and gene regulation presented by Chandrima Das at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences. Learn how chromatin, a long polymer containing the genetic code, is intricately arranged in 4D (space and time) and how epigenetic states and 3D organization dictate gene regulation. Discover recent advances in genomics, high-resolution microscopy, and single-cell measurements that have enhanced our understanding of chromatin's complex organization. Gain insights into the multi-disciplinary approach required to integrate diverse information and understand the underlying principles of chromatin organization and gene regulation. This talk is part of a larger program featuring a pedagogical workshop and scientific meeting, bringing together experts from various fields to discuss novel experimental observations, phenomenology, physical principles, and data-driven methods in chromatin research.

Learn how to capture the drama and beauty of the nighttime landscape in these tutorials filmed along the surreal shoreline of the Salton Sea and in the Anza-Borrego Desert.

Landscape Photography: Quickly learn to improve landscape photography with better lighting, composition, focus + editing What you'll learn: Learn landscape photography by following our journey on a real world landscape photo adventureTake better landscape photosQuickly improve your landscape photography with lighting, composition & editingMaster focus when doing landscape photographyLearn editing tips to improve your landscape photography What makes a great landscape photo compared to a mediocre one?How can you quickly improve your landscape photography using the camera & lenses that you already have?What are the easiest ways to take landscape photos that make others go 'WOW!'?If you're interested in landscape photography, but struggle to capture images like the ones you see from other photographers, this is the perfect photography course for you.This short & to-the-point workshop contains dozens of tips & techniques that you can start implementing today. Key concepts will you learn:Learn the easiest way to instantly improve your landscape photography... LIGHTINGLearn how to use several composition techniques capture more interesting photosLearn how to properly focus so that everything from your foreground to infinity is sharpLearn basic and advanced editing techniques to make your photos popAfter just 1 hour, you'll be more confident taking photos that inspire you, get more likes, and wow your fans!This course is taught using photography inspiration from professional photographers around the world, your instructor's real-world case studies, and historical photography great Ansel Adams. This course is based on advanced photography theory, and you'll come away with an in-depth knowledge of what makes a photo... great, compared to okay.If you want to quickly improve your landscape photography, this is the photography course for you!

Watch a livestream of digital landscape painting featuring Jon Neimeister as he creates a Ukrainian landscape to support the #artistshelpukraine initiative. Learn valuable techniques for digital art, including color blocking, perspective, and efficiency in Procreate. Gain insights into landscape painting for comics and games, character design, and narrative storytelling. Explore the balance between grayscale and color work, discover new painting tools, and understand how traditional techniques apply to digital art. Benefit from Neimeister's advice on value control, adding saturation, and creating atmospheric effects in landscapes.

Dive into an extensive 110-minute landscape photography masterclass that covers essential techniques and best practices for capturing stunning outdoor scenes. Learn how to optimize camera settings, choose the right equipment, and approach various aspects of landscape photography. Explore topics such as depth of field, perspective, hand-held shooting, tripod usage, filter applications, subject selection, focusing techniques, dynamic range management, exposure control, white balance adjustment, and aspect ratio considerations. Gain insights into post-production technicalities, black and white conversions, tripod settings, bulb mode, and astrophotography. Access a supporting album of ultra-high-definition landscape images to illustrate concepts, and benefit from the expertise of Sony Alpha Ambassador Mark Galer. Enhance your landscape photography skills and create captivating images that truly showcase the beauty of the natural world.

Explore the smartwatch landscape through a comprehensive presentation covering Pebble, Android Wear, and Apple Watch platforms. Dive into each platform's characteristics, supported usage scenarios, app architecture, development languages, tools, and lifecycle. Examine code samples for a common app developed across all three platforms. Learn about glanceable interfaces, sensors, Internet of Things integration, small screen design, and interaction patterns. Discover platform-specific topics such as Android Wear's creative vision, Apple Watch's Human Interface Guidelines, and Pebble's unique features. Gain insights into debugging with emulators, layout considerations for round and square screens, internet connectivity, data synchronization, and publishing processes. Perfect for developers looking to understand and create apps for the leading smartwatch ecosystems.

Develop the expertise to architect modern data ecosystems. Learn advanced database design, data modeling, cloud integration, and governance to deliver secure, efficient, and scalable enterprise data solutions.

The goal of the Security Architect Nanodegree is to equip learners with the necessary skills required to advance their careers in the field of cybersecurity. As a security architect, you'll be charged with designing security systems to thwart malware, hacker intrusions and Denial of Service attacks. The program addresses security topics related to architectural and implementation skills required by a skilled cybersecurity professional for critical use-cases like identity & access management, infrastructure security, threat detection and incident response.

A comprehensive course that covers the basics and advanced concepts required to be a MicroStrategy Architect. What you'll learn: Build and maintain MicroStrategy projects in the real worldData warehousing concepts MicroStrategy Architects can be hard to find and play a critical role in any organization. In addition to being experts on MicroStrategy, Architects understand data warehousing concepts as well as business concepts. As a result, they are usually highly compensated for their unique combination of skills.Whether you are a Report Developer or BIAnalyst aspiring to be an Architect or have some experience as an Architect but want to take things to the next level, this course has something for you.

This Specialization is intended for aspiring and hobbyist photographers seeking to develop professional-level landscape photography skills. Through four courses, you will learn how to capture stunning images, use creative composition, master aerial techniques, and scout unique locations. Guided by expert photographers Sean Dalton, Jordy Vandeput, Michael Yamashita, and Meredith Fontana, you’ll gain the skills to create compelling images that showcase the beauty of our planet.

What is a landscape? How has it evolved? How do we perceive landscapes? What properties are required to make us feel at home? Are you interested in these topics and want to understand how landscapes function? Then this is the course for you! We will present the discipline of Landscape Ecology, where natural and social sciences meet. You will realize how innovative and collaborative approaches used in Landscape Ecology allow land managers, planners and the public to shape landscapes for future societies. We will teach you the modern tools of Landscape Ecology enabling you to address fundamental research questions. You will also get valuable practical advice in solving existing real landscape issues. Leading Landscape Ecology professors will present case studies from around the world, highlighting tools and methods in Landscape Ecology and how they are used to solve environmental problems.

Learn how to create a stunning landscape drawing using pastels in this 25-minute video lesson. Discover techniques for using Rembrandt pastels on PastelMat paper to develop a vibrant pastel painting of a colorful field at sunset or sunrise. Explore color theory principles to create a harmonious yet colorful scene through layering and mixing pastel applications. Gain insights into capturing the essence of a landscape, focusing on light, color, and atmosphere. Perfect for both beginners and intermediate artists looking to enhance their pastel drawing skills and create captivating landscape artworks.

Learn how to create effective terrain materials in Unreal Engine as Thiago Carneiro breaks down complex landscape material creation into manageable steps. Discover procedural texture blending techniques and how to control transitions with basic layers in this 22-minute lesson focused on simplicity and practicality for 2.5D game development.

Hello guys Happy November to all of you Well, winters are here and being from a place where it doesn't snow..i always held snowfall and winters very dearly to my heart..that, i think, attracted me towards these winter landscapes.. then began the long process of learning,failing and learning again..after almost two months,,we are here..with this class..its mostly beginner friendly with all the tips and techniques to break down this complex subject in an easy step by step manner.. my favorite part was the thumbnail sketch..i hope you find this class useful .. Love,Sukrutha

Explore the CNCF Interactive Landscape in this 21-minute conference talk by Dan Kohn from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Discover how to navigate and utilize the interactive landscape at l.cncf.io to filter and sort hundreds of cloud-native projects and products. Learn about the detailed information available for each entry, including GitHub stars, funding, market cap, commit history, contributor counts, headquarters location, and recent tweets. Gain insights into the landscape's construction and participate in discussions about potential future improvements. The talk covers the introduction, interactive landscape features, CNCF projects, CEO file, and landscape view. For cloud computing enthusiasts and professionals, this presentation offers valuable knowledge about the evolving cloud-native ecosystem.

Explore the complex world of reactive programming in this 51-minute Devoxx conference talk. Dive into the various aspects of reactive development, including Reactive Programming, Reactive eXtensions, Reactive Streams, Reactive Systems, and the Reactive Manifesto. Gain clarity on how these concepts relate to asynchronous programming, scalability, RX libraries, back pressure, streams, observables, futures, promises, and spreadsheets. Learn the practical applications of reactive principles in modern software development and understand why they matter. Follow along with live coding examples using Eclipse Vert.x to see how reactive concepts work together in building distributed systems on the JVM. Benefit from speaker Clement Escoffier's extensive experience in software engineering and open-source contributions as he guides you through the reactive landscape, helping you apply these concepts to your own projects and applications.

Gain a new perspective on your universe that most people will never experience firsthand. This class will teach you all the tools necessary to photograph beautiful nighttime landscapes under the Milky Way.Whether you are a beginner that just got their first Digital SLR or a professional photographer looking to branch out into astrophotography for the first time, NIGHTSCAPES will teach you a unique form of photography that pushes the bounds of what you thought was possible with your camera. To begin, we will cover the bare essentials of astronomy needed to plan an astrophoto shoot. You will learn about light pollution and how to find the best dark sky locations near your hometown, the phases of the moon, and how to find important stars, constellations, and the Milky Way galactic plane.You’ll use your new astronomy knowledge to plan your first astrophoto shoot.NIGHTSCAPES will provide new insight to exposure settings for beginners and seasoned photographers alike.You will learn how to use your equipment to its extreme in the context of astrophotography, including how to approach f-stop, ISO sensitivity and shutter speeds. You'll learn about the best equipment choices and how to select gear for astrophotography. We'll cover shooting techniques for focusing in the dark, capturing and composing landscapes with the Milky Way, and painting with light. For the NIGHTSCAPES class project, you'll create a collection of landscape astrophotographs and a unique self-portrait with the Milky Way as your background.You'll showcase your photographs in the Student Gallery and provide feedback for your classmates.Your final project will include making a unique nightscape self-portrait. A Note from the Instructor:The camera is the paint brush for everyone. With it, we can communicate difficult ideas in a way that's faster than written words and quicker than many other art forms. It's the art medium for the masses, and that's what makes the camera so very special to all of us.NIGHTSCAPES is about gaining a new perspective on your universe and capturing it with your camera. I'll see you in class. -Ian______________Class OutlineLandscape Astrophotography. In this class, you’ll learn how to create technically impressive nightscapes with simple, step-by-step instructions. With Ian’s helpful photography tips for beginner and professional photographers alike, you’ll learn how to create an amazing collection of landscape astrophotos, capture unique self-portraits under the Milky Way, and push your artistic perspective in new and exciting directions. Finding a dark sky. Ian will define exactly what astrophotography is, and the history of how people have traditionally captured images of space. He’ll talk about an accessible form of astrophotography, which uses basic camera equipment. And he’ll teach you how to use a DSLR, in order to capture striking images of the night sky. You’ll be encouraged to take photos in a rural environment. where skies tend to be darker. And you’ll get simple tips for helping you track light pollution, and find new dark-sky locations. Understanding astronomy. You’ll learn where the earth is in our galaxy, and how that knowledge will affect your photographs of the night sky. Ian will share basic online tools, and open source planetarium software. They will help you better understand the Milky Way, including how we see it from earth on different dates and times. Using the correct gear. Ian will explain why a DSLR with a large imaging sensor will give you the best photographs. He will talk about fast wide-angle lenses, which he believes are the most important things for helping you with your landscape photography. And he will share the lens characteristics that will allow you to gather as much light from the stars as possible. Setting up. You’ll learn the best time to set up, and how to determine where to direct your camera. Ian will talk you through the concrete ways that you can preserve your night vision, and give you the best possible view of the stars. He will also discuss the considerations you should make when you set up your shot, and the ways to best guarantee tripod stability. Exposing for the Milky Way. Ian will walk you step-by-step through making your first exposure, including how to: Set the correct ISO camera setting, the aperture, and the shutter speed Manually focus and set your self-timer, your white balance, and long-exposure noise reduction Enable the raw recording mode to get the best image possible. You’ll also learn the ways he avoids common challenges, such as spherical aberration, noise, and grain. Composing photographs. You’ll learn why framing the sky with the earth’s landscape f can put the galaxy into perspective, and create more dynamic images. Ian will explain the rule of thirds, and ways to use it to your advantage when you want to best showcase your skyscape. Painting with light. Ian will share a variety of different light-painting techniques, and ways to use them to add extra punch to your landscape astrophotography. You’ll learn the ways to use a simple flashlight to add light to your foreground, or add extra details when you need them most. Processing your nightscapes. You’ll watch as Ian uses Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to demonstrate how he processes his astrophotography. He’ll share the ways that he adjusts his white balance, boosts the vibrancy and saturation, and creates a polished, beautiful final photograph.

Capture the beauty of the most colorful season with this collection of shooting and post-processing tips from landscape photographer Justin Reznick.