Many
years of study have shown us, the diamond should be illuminated
to emulate real life:
Using both ambient and directed light sources
From thousands of different directions
DTI
reflection tracing technology is only technology in the world
of its kind that allows the entire beam of light to be traced
as it enters the diamond by refracting through a facet, it
passes through the diamond until it reaches the next facet
or facets where it bounces and or refracts creating new beams,
which bounce to the next facets and so on. This process iterates
millions of times until each light beam exits the diamond
or is exhausted. An abreviated example of this is shown below
where one light beam bounces three times through the diamond
and produces fifteen new beams.
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DTI technology tracks and captures all light
beams and computes all relevant
optical characteristics for each one.
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The diagram at the left
is a simplification of the overall process our technology
uses to evaluate the look of a diamond.
As the diagram shows, lights (shown at the top) shine on the
virtual model, as in the white beam shown, then the light
flows into the diamond, as shown with the light blue beams,
the light then bounces to the next series of facets, shown
with the green beams, and then to another series of facets,
shown with red beams, where it can exit the diamond. The exiting
light is then captured using a series of virtual cameras which
surround the diamond, capturing all the views a diamond can
be seen from. In our analysis and in real life, this process
is much more complex and repeats itself millions of times
until the light is exhausted.
At any given location we know the beams:
- direction
- geometric shape
- area
- polarization
- intensity
- angular spread
- path length
- facet the light beam initially
entered and exited through.
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