:: I don't think Violet's uniform had any invisibility function -- I
:: think that was all Violet.
Edna Mode sez:
Your daughter's suit was tricky, but I finally created a sturdy
material that can disappear completely as she does.
And then the suit is shown turning invisible when touched by a pair of
sparking spheres, no Violet present.
And, as Andrew notes:
: Andrew Plotkin <
erky...@eblong.com>
: Violet turns her hand invisible and touches her costume (which is
: hanging on the rack). The whole costume disappears as soon as she
: touches it.
And similarly, in Edna's lab, the whole costume faded out even when the
simulated invisibility mojo seemed unevenly distributed. So. Touch the
suit anywhere with an invisible body part, the whole suit fades out.
( And my memory sez she was holding the suit up in her other hand.
Holding the suit with her still-visible right hand, touching it with
her invisible left. Specifically the forefinger of her left hand
was wgat sge was touching the suit with before she faded it out.
My memory could be faulty. But what's clear is that the suit is
*very* sensitive to even the *smallest* touch of any invisible
part of Violet touching it, and it reacts by entirely fading out. )
I suspect that turning partly invisible wasn't really needed, but they
wanted to show her surprised/delighted expression as the suit turned
invisible, and to do that, they had to have her hand be invisible,
and her face remain visible. But regardless of *why* they did it,
if Violet turns any part of her body which contacts the suit invisible,
poof, instant preternaturally transparent outfit.
The shyness response I was talking about was that, iirc, Violet
turned her head invisible to avoid her crush looking at her.
If she did that, ie, turning one body part invisible and leaving
the rest of herself visible... well... the implications of the
scene where she discovered the suit's properties were pretty blatant.
And given how effortlessly she turned her hand invislbe, partial
invisibility is clearly a move she's had experience with,
regardless of the earlier scene.
: (I can't remember if the earlier setup scene, where she turns her head
: invisible while standing behind a bush, was *just her head* or her
: entire body excepting clothes. If I ever see the movie again, I'll
: pay attention.)
Hm. Yeah, I guess I'm not *totally* sure either, but my memory
tells me her hand was still touching the wall. I could be misremembering.