This technique can be used to achieve an effect similar to that used in the Harry Potter films to create the effect of an invisibility cloak.

When placed on the ground, they create a permanent invisibility effect that hides the warrior from monsters should he step into and stand over the beacon.

Stars and planets are too small or dim to take on this effect, and are instead only dimmed ( often to the point of invisibility ).

It was also said to confer the power of invisibility if wrapped in a fresh bay leaf and held in the hand.

Claiming that invisibility was a major obstacle toward changing public opinion, he urged homosexual people to reveal their same-sex attractions.

This was part of de Valera's policy to make the governor-generalship an irrelevance by reducing it to invisibility.

Presumably, she was able to pass the precursor gene on via Leto's breeding program, leading eventually to Siona's complete invisibility to prescient vision and her ability to pass that genetic trait on to her offspring and spread it into the general population.

In the context of games for many 8-bit computers, it was a common practice to load games into memory and, before launching them, modify specific memory addresses in order to cheat, getting an unlimited number of lives, immunity, invisibility, etc.

His father smuggled him out of prison and allowed him to live under an invisibility cloak, guarded by Winky, and how Ministry of Magic worker Bertha Jorkins discovered him and ultimately was relieved of her information by Voldemort, who then returned to find Crouch Jr in his father's house.

She was targeted by several Skrull impostors while staying in Japan, however, Elektra fought and killed most of these Skrulls ( including Siri ), before being blindsided and severely beaten by a Super Skrull manifesting Invisible Woman's invisibility and Colossus ' organic steel armor.

Given the relative invisibility of references to AIDS in mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, the work of New Queer Cinema was hailed by the gay community as a welcome correction to a history of under-representation and stereotyping of gay and lesbian people.

Nearly three decades later, a more serious attempt at " invisibility " was tried with the Horten Ho 229 flying wing fighter-bomber, developed in Germany during the last years of World War II.

In France, it was heralded by Guillaume Apollinaire with L ' Enchanteur Pourrissant Rotting Enchanter ( 1909 ), a poetic dialog between Merlin and Viviane, and L ' Hérésiarque et Cie. ( 1910 ), a collection of short stories written between 1899 and 1910, dealing with a variety of fantasy themes such as magic, invisibility, etc.

As Johnson described it, this was especially due to his characters ' possession of a ring of invisibility, so that " it all sounded too much like another story ," referring to Bilbo Baggins and the One Ring.

Lyle Norg is a genius with a skill for xenochemistry who was used by his father to develop an invisibility serum.

Released as Rijie ( an alternate romanization of Ligier, Mirage's Japanese name ), the figure was a recolor of his Machine Wars toy, recolored to resemble the G1 incarnation of the character, and the toy's profile-which spun out of the animated series at a point prior to The Transformers: The Movie-made it clear that this was the original Mirage, still wielding his electro-disruptor and possessing his invisibility powers.

The Republican expected to retire was Clarence E. Miller, a thirteen-term veteran called " chairman of the caucus of the obscure " for his invisibility on Capitol Hill.

At microwave frequencies, the first real invisibility cloak was realized in 2006.

The proof of principle of a working invisibility cloak was demonstrated on October 19, 2006.

In later years, Crowley claimed to have successfully completed the Abramelin operation, but the outcome of his experiment was not the advertised powers of treasure-finding, invisibility, flight, and love-drawing.

One was the addition of the second item slot, allowing each player to carry a shooting item and support item ( such as a rock, or invisibility ) at the same time.

His insanity is purely a side-effect of the invisibility drug, and his motivation for the experiment was a misguided desire to do good for science and mankind, born primarily out of his love for his fiancée.

The name change is explained by the fact that Skinner was a thief who stole the invisibility formula from the original Invisible Man ( presumably Griffin ).

On The Invisible Man television series on SCI FI, the character played by Joel Bissonnette was a scientist who worked on the development of the invisibility gland.

In the meantime, Xander and Anya discover that the invisibility ray was causing the structure of the traffic cone to break down, and realize that the same thing would happen to Buffy if the invisibility wasn't reversed.

This invisibility disappeared with the release of a film titled Fire in 1996, prompting some theaters in India to be attacked by extremists.

This is illustrated in the encounter of the blessed woman and her husband: she is surrounded by gleaming attendants while he shrinks down to invisibility as he uses a collared tragedian to speak for him.

A typical Perdo Imaginem spell is granting invisibility to the caster by making one's image disappear.

The underlying connotation of shinobi ( 忍 ) means " to steal away " and — by extension — " to forbear ", hence its association with stealth and invisibility.

* Hippolytus: Slain by his grandnephew Hermes with his sword and wearing the cap of invisibility.

Since objects can be seen by light in the visible spectrum from a source reflecting off their surfaces and hitting the viewer's eye, the most natural form of invisibility ( whether real or fictional ) is an object that neither reflects nor absorbs light ( that is, it allows light to pass through it ).

* Though stealth technology is cited as invisibility to radar, all officially disclosed applications of the technology can only reduce the size and / or clarity of the signature detected by radar.

For example, they may grant the person wearing it invisibility as in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.

A similar sort of garment is worn by the members of the Fellowship of the Ring in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, although instead of granting complete invisibility, the Elf-made cloaks simply appear to shift between any natural color ( e. g. green, gray, brown ) to help the wearer to blend in with their surroundings.

Marble Man expanded on the gameplay of the original game by featuring new abilities for the marble such as invisibility and flight, included pinball minigames between sets of levels, and allowed up to three players to traverse isometric courses.

Isildur attempted to escape by jumping in to the Anduin, using the power of invisibility of the One Ring, but the Ring slipped from Isildur's finger and sank to the bottom of the river.

The invisibility and mobility of submarines offer both a reliable means of deterrence against an attack ( by maintaining the threat of a second strike ), and a surprise first-strike capability-particularly given the range of the weapons they carry.

( SARS had also been gaining prominence in the mainland Chinese media ; by late April, it had jumped from virtual invisibility onto the front-page, with daily reports from all provinces on new cases and measures.

#: One of Penny's friends, Shawn Jellypin, who invented the invisibility formula, is kidnapped by Dr. Claw.

His entry in the Dictionary of Art ( 1996 vol 7, p569 ), by Geoffrey Ashton, refers to the invisibility of his brush strokes as a " rather unexciting and flat use of paint " but contrasts that with " Collier's strong and surprising sense of colour " which " created a disconcerting verisimilitude in both mood and appearance ".

They enter a seemingly empty cottage and are welcomed by invisible people, for they have entered the Valley of Voe, whose inhabitants use their invisibility to hide from marauding bears.

They were normally cloaked in invisibility ; however, their high-pitched voices ( which Morden could understand because of Shadow modifications on him ) could sometimes be heard by other races, and their images could sometimes be captured fleetingly by security cameras sensitive to infrared or ultraviolet wavelengths.