What is "hall of mirrors"

n. 1 A carnival attraction with curved mirrors that distort the viewer's appearance. 2 (context video games uncountable English) A glitch in some three-dimensional games where a missing texture prevents part of the scene from being rendered correctly, causing a trail of previously rendered frames to appear instead.

The Hall of Mirrors ( or ) is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France.

As the principal and most remarkable feature of King Louis XIV of France's third building campaign of the Palace of Versailles (1678–1684), construction of the Hall of Mirrors began in 1678. To provide for the Hall of Mirrors as well as the salon de la guerre and the salon de la paix, which connect the grand appartement du roi with the grand appartement de la reine, architect Jules Hardouin Mansart appropriated three rooms from each apartment as well as the terrace that separated the two apartments.

The principal feature of this hall is the seventeen mirror-clad arches that reflect the seventeen arcaded windows that overlook the gardens. Each arch contains twenty-one mirrors with a total complement of 357 used in the decoration of the galerie des glaces. The arches themselves are fixed between marble pilasters whose capitals depict the symbols of France. These gilded bronze capitals include the fleur-de-lys and the Gallic cockerel or rooster. Many of the other attributes of the Hall of Mirrors were lost to war for financial purposes, such as the silver table pieces and guéridons, which were melted by order of Louis XIV in 1689 to finance the War of the League of Augsburg.

The Hall of Mirrors is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles

Hall of Mirrors may also refer to:

• A house of mirrors or hall of mirrors, a room full of mirrors often found as an attraction at carnivals or amusement parks
• Hall of Mirrors is name of a hall in Golestan Palace
• Hall of Mirrors (2001 film), a 2001 independent feature written and directed by Brad Osborne
• "Hall of Mirrors", a song by Kraftwerk from their 1977 album Trans-Europe Express
• "Hall of Mirrors", a song by The Distillers from their 2003 album Coral Fang
• A Hall of Mirrors, a 1964 book written by Robert Stone
• "Hall of Mirrors" (Vonnegut story), a short story by Kurt Vonnegut in the collection Look at the Birdie (2009)
• "Hall of Mirrors" (Zelazny story), a short story of Amber by Roger Zelazny (1996)
• Hall of mirrors effect, a visual anomaly in computer graphics

Hall of Mirrors is a 2001 independent film written and directed by Brad Osborne.