Speaker
James Conant
(Gemological Institute of America)
Description
In the first part of the talk, we give some background on the geometry of diamond cuts, and the special optical properties that make them so captivating to look at. In the second part, we discuss how the classical mathematics of the Maxwell-Cremona correspondence can assist in the enumeration of possible diamond cuts.
Author
James Conant
(Gemological Institute of America)
