A mirror is a surface with good specular reflection that is smooth enough to form an image. The best known example is the plane mirror. The most common use is in the home for personal grooming but mirrors are also used in scientific apparatus such as telescopes and lasers, and in industrial machinery. Mirror - Effect. In a plane mirror, a parallel beam of light changes its direction as a whole, whilst still remaining parallel; the images formed by a plane mirror are virtual images, of the same size a ...

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• Mirror - Effect
• Mirror - Image in a mirror
• Mirror - Composition
• Mirror - Applications
• Mirror - Viewing one's own body
• Mirror - Instruments
• Mirror - Safety and easier viewing
• Mirror - One-way mirror
• Mirror - Decoration
• Mirror - Signaling
• Mirror - Entertainment
• Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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Mirror, Mirror - Effect, Mirror - Image in a mirror, Mirror - Composition, Mirror - Applications, Mirror - Viewing one's own body, Mirror - Instruments, Mirror - Safety and easier viewing, Mirror - One-way mirror, Mirror - Decoration, Mirror - Signaling, Mirror - Entertainment, Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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For an object with approximate reflection symmetry, a reflection in some mirror plane corresponds to a combination of: a translation if the mirror is parallel to the symmetry plane of the object, and otherwise a rotation about the line of intersection of the two planes by an angle which is twice the angle between the two planes a reflection in the approximate symmetry plane of the object (due to t ...

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Mirror, Mirror - Effect, Mirror - Image in a mirror, Mirror - Composition, Mirror - Applications, Mirror - Viewing one's own body, Mirror - Instruments, Mirror - Safety and easier viewing, Mirror - One-way mirror, Mirror - Decoration, Mirror - Signaling, Mirror - Entertainment, Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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Most of us on our healing path have become very familiar with the admonition to "love ourselves." We may be clear that our purpose is to bring more love into the world. Since how we perceive and relate to "the world" is always a mirror of how we perceive and relate to ourselves, our goal is really to bring more love into ourselves. It is important to understand that, in terms of cause and effect, the external world is a reflection (or an "effect") of our "internal world: (our self), which is the opposite of how we naturally perceive things to be.

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We all yearn for the improvement of our fortunes. So we wish to know the future. Palmistry is an effective reflector of what the future holds for us.

Indian ascetics have said that one should take a good look at the palms of both hands for good fortune and luck before getting out of bed early in the morning.

The hand is a symbol of mystic power for it mirrors the individual personality. Those who desire improvement, invigoration and achievement in their lives should rise early in the morning and look at their palms, and then rub them over the face lightly.

(See also: Palmistry, Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Certain features in your external environment can adversely affect the feng shui of your building. These 'poison arrows' can be responsible for ill-fortune in the form of robbery, legal entanglement or serious illness. It is, therefore, necessary to identify the not-so-obvious 'poison arrows' in your environment and to deal with them.

(See also: Feng Shui, Vaastu Shastra, Sacred Geometry, Sacred Space)

The Venus effect is a phenomenon in the psychology of perception. As shown in the illustration the natural assumption is that Venus is admiring her own reflection in the mirror. In fact if the viewer can see her face, then Venus would actually be looking at the viewer's face. This psychological "trick" is often used in the cinema, where an actor will be shown apparently looking at himself in the mirror, with the camera just out of shot. In fact, the actor will be looking at the camera a ...

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• Venus effect - Research

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Cameo is a method of carving, or an item of jewelry made in this manner. It features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. The effect of "cameo" also refers to a proof coin that has frosted lettering and features, providing attractive contrast with the mirrored fields of the coin. The terms "deep cameo" and "ultra cameo" describe cameo coins h ...

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Adaptive optics is a technology to improve the performance of (usually) astronomical telescopes by reducing the effects of atmospheric distortion, or astronomical seeing. Adaptive optics works by measuring the distortion and rapidly compensating for it either using deformable mirrors or material with variable refractive properties. While the technique was theoretically understood for some time, it was only advances in computer technology during the 1990s that finally made the technique practical. Adaptive optics should not be confused ...

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• Adaptive optics - Introduction
• Adaptive optics - Uses of adaptive optics
• Adaptive optics - Beam stabilization

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Biofeedback is a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) which involves measuring bodily processes such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, galvanic skin response (sweating), and muscle tension in order to raise a subject's awareness and conscious control of these functions. Devices as simple as mirrors and bathroom scales can be considered rudimentary biofeedback devices, insofar as the information they provide can help a person with issues related to posture and weight; more complex biofeedback devices have ...

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• Biofeedback - Origins of biofeedback
• Biofeedback - Types of biofeedback
• Biofeedback - Criticisms
• Biofeedback - Possible beneficial side effects

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A volumetric display device is a graphical display device that forms a visual representation of an object in three physical dimensions, as opposed to the planar image of traditional screens that simulate depth through a number of different visual effects. Although first postulated in 1912, volumetric displays are still under development, and have yet to reach the general population. With a variety of systems proposed and in use in small quantities mostly in academia and various research labs, volumetric displays remain accessible only ...

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• Volumetric display - Types of Displays
• Volumetric display - Swept-plane display
• Volumetric display - Emissive volume display
• Volumetric display - Varifocal mirror display
• Volumetric display - Laser display
• Volumetric display - Holographic display
• Volumetric display - Companies Selling Volumetric Displays
• Volumetric display - R&D on Volumetric Displays

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Active optics is a relatively new technology for reflecting telescopes. Active optics works by "actively" adjusting the telescope's mirrors. This method is used by, among others, the Nordic Optical Telescope, the New Technology Telescope and the Keck telescopes, as well as all large telescopes built in the last decade. Most modern telescopes are reflectors, with the primary element being a very large mirror. Historically, a fixed weight-to-diameter relation was used to build these mirrors, limiting their maximum diameter to 5 or 6 meters ( ...

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A telescope (from the Greek tele = 'far' and skopein = 'to look or see'; teleskopos = 'far-seeing') is an optical tool which gathers and focuses electromagnetic radiation. Telescopes increase the apparent angular size of distant objects, as well as their apparent brightness. Telescopes are used for astronomy and in many non-astronomical instruments including theodolites, transits, spotting scopes, monoculars, binoculars, camera lenses and spyglasses. The word "telescope" usually refers to optical telescopes, but there are telescopes for mo ...

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• Telescope - History
• Telescope - Types
• Telescope - Telescope mountings
• Telescope - Research telescopes
• Telescope - Imperfect images
• Telescope - The five Seidel aberrations
• Telescope - The chromatic aberrations
• Telescope - Famous optical telescopes
• Telescope - Related lists

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It is a technique that often is pointed out as an opposite to forecasting. It involves identification of a particular scenario and tracing its origins and lines of development back to the present. Futures techniques - Back-view mirror analysis. It builds upon the assumption that any future oriented group process has to manage peoples’ difficulties in thinking into the future. These difficulties can arise from the fea ...

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Futures techniques, Futures techniques - Anticipatory thinking tutures, Futures techniques - Causal layered analysis CLA, Futures techniques - Environmental scanning, Futures techniques - Morphological analysis, Futures techniques - Scenario planning, Futures techniques - Delphi method, Futures techniques - Future history, Futures techniques - Monitoring, Futures techniques - Backcasting eco-history, Futures techniques - Back-view mirror analysis, Futures techniques - Cross-impact analysis, Futures techniques - Futures workshops, Futures techniques - Failure mode and effects analysis, Futures techniques - Futures biographies, Futures techniques - Futures wheel, Futures techniques - Relevance tree, Futures techniques - Simulation and modelling, Futures techniques - Social network analysis, Futures techniques - Systems engineering, Futures techniques - Trend analysis, Futures techniques - Adaptive role-playing

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In addition to providing an additional copy of the data for the purpose of redundancy in case of hardware failure, disk mirroring can allow each disk to be accessed separately for reading purposes. This effectively doubles the speed of disk read access (halves the seek time). This is an important consideration in hardware configurations that frequently access the data on the disk. The mirror disk can also be split off and used for data backup, allowing the first disk to remain active. However me ...

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Disk mirror, Disk mirror - Explanation, Disk mirror - Other benefits of mirroring, Disk mirror - Other schemes

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Houses are created using the built-in house editor in the "Classic" version and allow for custom images and sounds via embedding of 'PICT' and 'snd' resources in the house's resource fork. Glider PRO - Mermaid files. A debugging feature in the Mac OS 9 version of Glider PRO allows all of the graphics and sounds in the game (including the ones that cannot be directly replaced by a house's resource fork) to be overridden by alternative graphics. This is done by placing a file named ...

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Glider PRO, Glider PRO - The game, Glider PRO - Game basics, Glider PRO - Houses, Glider PRO - Versions of the game, Glider PRO - Differences between OS X/Carbon and System 7-OS 9/Classic versions, Glider PRO - Glider PRO Classic CD, Glider PRO - House building, Glider PRO - Mermaid files, Glider PRO - Objects in the game, Glider PRO - Community and future of Glider series, Glider PRO - The Intel transition and its effect on Glider PRO, Glider PRO - Houses, Glider PRO - Absolute Glider, Glider PRO - Art Museum, Glider PRO - Castle o' The Air, Glider PRO - Christmas in Lumberland, Glider PRO - Davis Station, Glider PRO - Death To Barney, Glider PRO - Grand Prix, Glider PRO - House of Food, Glider PRO - ImagineHouse PRO, Glider PRO - ImagineHouse PRO II, Glider PRO - In the Mirror, Glider PRO - Jocular, Glider PRO - Land of Illusion, Glider PRO - Lumberland, Glider PRO - Metropolis, Glider PRO - Mighty Morphin' Power Glider, Glider PRO - Nemo's Market, Glider PRO - Slumberland

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Reflections, or mirror isometries, can be combined to produce any isometry. Thus isometries are an example of a reflection group. Euclidean plane isometry - Mirror combinations. In the Euclidean plane, we have the following possibilities. [d  ] Identity Two reflections in the same mirror restore each point to its original position. All points are left fixed. Any pair of identical mirrors has the same effect. See also:

Euclidean plane isometry, Euclidean plane isometry - Informal discussion, Euclidean plane isometry - Formal definition, Euclidean plane isometry - Classification of Euclidean plane isometries, Euclidean plane isometry - Isometries as reflection group, Euclidean plane isometry - Mirror combinations, Euclidean plane isometry - Three mirrors suffice, Euclidean plane isometry - Recognition, Euclidean plane isometry - Group structure, Euclidean plane isometry - Composition, Euclidean plane isometry - Translation rotation and orthogonal subgroups, Euclidean plane isometry - Nested group construction, Euclidean plane isometry - Discrete subgroups, Euclidean plane isometry - Isometries in the complex plane

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If the optical cavity is not empty (e.g., a laser cavity which contains the gain medium), the value of L used is not the physical mirror separation but the optical path length between the mirrors. Lenses placed in the cavity alter the stability and mode size. In addition, for most gain media, thermal and other inhomogeneities create a lensing effect in the medium. Practical laser resonators may contain more than two mirrors; three- and four-mirror arrangements are common. This is called folding. These designs allow compensation ...

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Optical cavity, Optical cavity - Resonator modes, Optical cavity - Resonator types, Optical cavity - Stability, Optical cavity - Practical resonators, Optical cavity - Optical Delay Line

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Some authors claim that in most organizations it is impossible to quantify the effects. They claim that experience effects are so closely intertwined with economies of scale that it is impossible to separate the two. In theory we can say that economies of scale are those efficiencies that arise from an increased scale of production, and that experience effects are those efficiencies that arise from the learning and experience gained from repeated activities, but in practice the two mirror each other: growth of experience coincides with incre ...

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Experience curve effects, Experience curve effects - The learning curve effect, Experience curve effects - The experience curve effect, Experience curve effects - Reasons for the effect, Experience curve effects - Experience curve discontinuities, Experience curve effects - Strategic consequences of the effect, Experience curve effects - Criticisms, Experience curve effects - Books and articles

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Futures techniques - Causal layered analysis CLA. This method, developed by Sohail Inayatullah, is one of the newest developments in the Futures Studies. Causal layered analysis focuses on “opening up” the present and past to create alternative futures rather than on developing a picture of particular future. It is concerned with the vertical dimension of futures studies, with the layers of analysis. CLA is based on the assumption that the way, in which a problem is formulated changes the poli ...

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Futures techniques, Futures techniques - Anticipatory thinking tutures, Futures techniques - Causal layered analysis CLA, Futures techniques - Environmental scanning, Futures techniques - Morphological analysis, Futures techniques - Scenario planning, Futures techniques - Delphi method, Futures techniques - Future history, Futures techniques - Monitoring, Futures techniques - Backcasting eco-history, Futures techniques - Back-view mirror analysis, Futures techniques - Cross-impact analysis, Futures techniques - Futures workshops, Futures techniques - Failure mode and effects analysis, Futures techniques - Futures biographies, Futures techniques - Futures wheel, Futures techniques - Relevance tree, Futures techniques - Simulation and modelling, Futures techniques - Social network analysis, Futures techniques - Systems engineering, Futures techniques - Trend analysis, Futures techniques - Adaptive role-playing

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