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The Look of Perfection
Still, the question has always remained: do the Tolkowsky Ideal proportions actually produce a diamond with maximum brilliance and fire? There has been no way to prove it, other than a visual test: Ideal diamonds almost always were chosen as the brightest and most beautiful in comparison with a conventionally cut stone.
But did this mean they were as beautiful as they could be? Creating a diamond so beautiful that it inspires devotion begins as a practical problem: how to make the facets work together to create the greatest light return.
A diamond capable of 100 percent light return would be a precise little masterwork. It would be perfectly round. Its culet would be perfectly centered. The facets would be of equal length. The facets would make sharply aligned patterns - with no fuzzy edges or bleeding lines. Every facet would be exact: they would not leak light.
To achieve this, you would need to see how the angles interact as they are being cut. You would need to check for possible light leakage.
You would need to use a Firescope.
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