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Study of Interdependence:
Fancy-color Diamond Appearance, Cut, and Lighting Conditions
Fancy-Color Diamonds:
Better Color Appearance by Optimizing Cut

1 Content
2 Color optimization method
3 Diamond absorption spectra
4 Two representations of colors
5 A good fancy colored diamond should be bright and saturated
6 Color potential of a colored diamond plate
7 DiamCalc ray tracing options and photorealistic images
8 One spectrum - different cuts and different lightings
9 Process flow
10 Exploring rough diamond potential
11 Rough allocation example
12 Different allocation plans
13 Automatic color optimization
14 Optimization by color
15 Optimization by contrast
16 Optimization results
17 Computer-aided color optimization
18 Expert considerations
19 The final stage: expert decision
20 Verification of the technology: CZ material
21 Real photos of CZ stones and photorealistic images based on Helium scanned 3d models
22 Verification on fancy shapes CZ
23 Summary
24 More information about diamond cut study technologies
25 Terms of colorimetry science (Hunt, 2004)
26 Acknowledges
27 References
Computer modeling of gemstones for improvement of their color appearance
Visible adsorption spectra and DiamCalc-files of colored gem materials
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DiamCalc Internal Cuts gallery
External Cuts gallery (Dll)
Diamond cuts gallery
 
Verification of the technology: CZ material
 
CZ plate photo:
RGB = 191; 193; 153
Background RGB: 203; 205; 202
  DiamCalc CZ plate model:
RGB = 192; 190; 145
Background RGB: 202; 202; 202

This technology was verified on the colored CZ material, which is, in fact, not only diamond stimulant, but a good material to model and study diamonds.

In the DiamCalc in order to go from diamond to CZ a user should change refractive index, dispersion and absorption spectrum.

Here are a photo of a CZ colored plate and the same plate and light modeled. See the proximity of RGB values for the plate color and for the background color.

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