Tuesday, July 19, 2011

What is the behaviour of light with different diamond cuts?

Diamonds are cut and shaped to maximise the number of total internal reflections that light undergoes within them. At each reflection, light is dispersed into the rainbow. Some of these colours eventually make their way out of the stone and to your eyes. So what are the light paths of diferent diamond cuts? How do different diamond cuts reflect, refract and absorb?

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