Mirrors are commonly used for personal grooming or admiring oneself ( in which case the archaic term looking-glass is sometimes still used ), decoration, and architecture.

Mirrors are manufactured by applying a reflective coating to a suitable substrate.

Mirrors are sometimes necessary to fully appreciate art work:

Mirrors are frequently used in interior decoration and as ornaments:

* Mirrors, typically large and unframed, are frequently used in interior decoration to create an illusion of space and amplify the apparent size of a room.

* Mirrors are used also in some schools of feng shui, an ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space, to achieve harmony with the environment.

* Mirrors are employed in kaleidoscopes, personal entertainment devices invented in Scotland by Sir David Brewster.

* Mirrors are often used in magic to create an illusion.

Mirrors in attractions like this are often made of plexiglass as to assure that they do not break.

Mirrors are said to be a reflection of the soul, and they were often used in traditional witchcraft as tools for scrying or performing other spells.

Mirrors which need superior reflectivity for visible light are commonly made with silver as the reflecting material in a process called silvering, though common mirrors are backed with aluminium.

Many of these are original, ingenious and meticulously explained ; early examples are The Opera House Murders, Death TV and Smoke and Mirrors and finally the series Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna has a locked-room mystery called " The room with the special lock " in chapters 4 to 6.

The format's technical specifications are of the same quality as MiniDV ( both use the same DV codec ), and although no professional-level Digital8 equipment exists, Digital8 has been used to make TV and movie productions ( example: Hall of Mirrors ).

He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a non-profit church supporting Visionary Culture in Wappinger, New York.

Grey's work and his Chapel of Sacred Mirrors gallery in New York City are featured in a 2006 DVD release CoSM The Movie, directed by Nick Krasnic.

Although most popular in the UK, Mirrors are also sailed in other countries, notably Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands, South Africa, New Zealand, the Philippines and the United States.

Mirrors are raced competitively worldwide.

Mirrors are suitable for cruising in coastal waters-one has even been sailed and rowed singlehanded from Ellesmere ( near Liverpool ) to the Black Sea.

Mirrors are also needed to oscillate the light produced by the dye ’ s fluorescence, which is amplified with each pass through the liquid.

Mirrors are located in Brazil, China, Chile, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom, and the Ukraine.

In " Where Mirrors are Windows ," ( 1989 ) and in " Three Hundred Ramayanas " ( 1991 ), for example, he discusses the " intertextual " nature of Indian literature, written and oral ... He says, " What is merely suggested in one poem may become central in a ' repetition ' or an ' imitation ' of it.

His essay " Where Mirrors Are Windows: Toward an Anthology of Reflections " ( 1989 ), and his commentaries in The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology ( 1967 ) and Folktales from India, Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages ( 1991 ) are good examples of his work in Indian folklore studies.

Mirrors made of other metal mixtures ( alloys ) such as copper and tin speculum metal may have also been produced in China and India.

Mirrors can also be used for rescue to attract the attention of search and rescue helicopters.

Lansky's 1979 computer music piece " Her Song ", from the Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion ( re-released on the album Fantasies and Tableaux, 1994 ), has also been sampled by Caural for his song " I Won't Race You ", from his 2006 album Mirrors For Eyes, with the main synthesized vocal line of Lansky's piece being used ( and being the basis for the title of the latter ).

In the early 1980s Tutin also appeared in the made-for-television film Murder with Mirrors ( based on an Agatha Christie novel ) along with Helen Hayes and Bette Davis.

Speer also designed a new Chancellery, which included a vast hall designed to be twice as long as the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.

It also contains Shish Mahal ( Hall of Mirrors of Mirror Palace ), and spacious bedrooms and smaller gardens.

The conference was not only opened on the anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Reich, the treaty also had to be signed by the new German government in the same room, the Hall of Mirrors.

He is also featured in the upcoming 2012 Smoke And Mirrors anthology, featuring the teleplay " Hell Hospital " and the treatment " Faith ".

The first history book of Okinawa is Chuzanseikan ( Mirrors of Chuzan ), which was compiled by Sho Shoken ( 向象賢 ) ( 1617 – 1675 ), also known as Haneji Choshu ( 羽地朝秀 ).

Béla Fleck and John Popper contributed on Mirrors of Embarrassment and Popper also contributed to The Benefit Concert Vol.

The story was first published in the British magazine Knave, and has also been included in his short story collections Angels and Visitations ( 1993 ) and Smoke and Mirrors ( 1998 ), and in the anthology Bangs & Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World.

Young's first sole credit as director ( and also Christopher Lee's film debut ) was Corridor of Mirrors ( 1948 ), an acclaimed film made in France.

He also starred in the 2010 film Mirrors 2.

The band was also referenced in episode five (" Smoke and Mirrors ") of series two of The IT Crowd.

Fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth also has a song called " House of Mirrors " of his Hard Hat Area album.

A second music video was also made for the title track of the album " Walking Into Mirrors " also directed by Jeff Baines.

As well as developing various Pokémon-related titles, they also assisted in the development of Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors for the Wii with Eighting.

" Snow, Glass, Apples " and " Murder Mysteries " have also been published in Smoke and Mirrors, a collection of Neil Gaiman's short stories.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

Mirrors can be used to produce enhanced lighting effects in greenhouses or conservatories.

Mirrors have been used by artists to create works and hone their craft:

Although named after Dutch astronomer Willebrord Snellius ( 1580 – 1626 ), the law was first accurately described by the Arab scientist Ibn Sahl at Baghdad court, when in 984 he used the law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations in the manuscript On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 984 ).

Mirrors or closed-circuit cameras may be used in these cases to view the whole platform.

In fact, Digital8 cameras have been used on the professional side of the film / TV business ; example, Hall of Mirrors, The Movie.

On " Mind's Mirrors ", Meshuggah used electronics, programming and " robotic voices ".

* Mirrors would later be used again to build a time machine in the 2008 episode " Turn Left ".

During the 17th century, the Hall of Mirrors was used daily by Louis XIV when he walked from his private apartment to the chapel.

Although much of his music sounds like it was composed using equipment at the forefront of technology, it is not uncommon for him to use equipment now considered antique, such as the 1971 Korg micro synth that he used for portions of the second album, Corridor of Mirrors.

* The main theme is used extensively in the soundtrack of the 2008 film Mirrors.

The track " Mirrors and Fevers " was used as the intro to 2006's rarities compilation, Noise Floor ( Rarities: 1998-2005 ).