The Wall Street Crash and the ensuing Great Depression of the 1930s ensured that the hedonism and excesses of flappers were abruptly and instantly snuffed out. To learn more about flappers, see the following links. Flappers and Jazz Culture; Flapper Article from the 1920s; Flappers Explained; Louise Brooks: Flapper Icon
Enabling Ambient Occlusion in Games. Ambient Occlusion is a visual effect that was originally developed by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) and used in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor. Hardware support has been available since 2003 with NVIDIAâs GeForce FX.
In computing, ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people.Ambient intelligence is a vision on the future of consumer electronics, telecommunications and computing that was originally developed in the late 1990s for the time frame 2010â2020.mbient intelligence is closely related to the long term vision of an intelligent service system in which technologies are able to automate a platform embedding the required devices for powering context aware, personalized, adaptive and anticipatory services.