Acadia opened this issue on Mar 30, 2007 ยท 181 posts
Miss Nancy posted Fri, 30 March 2007 at 3:57 PM
yeah, just to agree with the others - caustics are light beams focused by a curved surface, and they're easy in carrara et al. a diamond is polished using diamond grit on a flat wheel, which takes advantage of the diamond's relative hardness in a few planes, and relative softness in all the others. hence a curved, polished diamond is difficult to achieve, and if one is offered, it may be a fake.