Hi All.....
Back from the AGS conclave..
It was truly amazing, and lots of new information provided by many experts.
It was probably one of the best conclaves in the last few years with tons of information about the new AGS Cut grading methods.
At the conclave it was announced that the appropriate committees has approved adding square and emerald cut grading to the rounds and princess cuts. So new AGS grading system, will soon cover emeralds and asscher type cut stones, very shortly.
We got to see an amazing collection of fancy color diamonds, and also a spectacular display of some really incredible designs in a fashion show ( complete with very attractive models ) who wore some stellar designed items by some of the country''s most incredible diamond manufacturers.
Neil (Denver Appraiser), Marty- Adamasgem , Sergey, Peter Yantzer, Jim Caudill, Val ( from AGS ) and I were almost inseparable. I did get some photos, and will be posting them. Marty, Neil, Val, Sergey and I all went out for dinner one night for a lobster "pig out". Marty devoured seven lobsters... It was a pay one price type place and get all the lobsters ( and other seafood specialities) that you could "snork" up.
Got to see lots of old friends and made tons of new ones.
Sergey showed us some very interesting stuff he is planning on his portable laptop computer that show the appearance of diamonds in various environments. The work he put into this is simply amazing. The detail of how the diamond appears is just short of spectacular. You take an image of where the diamond will be, input the type and proportion file, and it produces how the diamond will look in the image you input. He had a scene of daylight in a photos where there was intense daylight in an area surrounded with mountains, and you could see just how the diamond would look, with amazing detail, even with the reflection of the surrounding mountains reflected in the table of the diamond. Sergey really is an incredibly nice guy with lots of brilliant ideas to improve and develop some amazing changes to what we already have available to us. It''s almost scary to think what incredible tools we''ll have five years from now.
The technology keeps on being more intensely develped.
A new ASET which was really nicely designed, made of metal was also on display and we got to be able to play with it. It has with it it''s own lighting source, but differs from the face down desktop ASET,in that the stones are view face up. A NEW hand held ASET was also on display and very much improved over the last hand held ASET version.
I got one of the new metal ASET models and it will be shipped out shortly and will be providing some photos of it as soon as I get it.
More later....
Rockdoc
Back from the AGS conclave..
It was truly amazing, and lots of new information provided by many experts.
It was probably one of the best conclaves in the last few years with tons of information about the new AGS Cut grading methods.
At the conclave it was announced that the appropriate committees has approved adding square and emerald cut grading to the rounds and princess cuts. So new AGS grading system, will soon cover emeralds and asscher type cut stones, very shortly.
We got to see an amazing collection of fancy color diamonds, and also a spectacular display of some really incredible designs in a fashion show ( complete with very attractive models ) who wore some stellar designed items by some of the country''s most incredible diamond manufacturers.
Neil (Denver Appraiser), Marty- Adamasgem , Sergey, Peter Yantzer, Jim Caudill, Val ( from AGS ) and I were almost inseparable. I did get some photos, and will be posting them. Marty, Neil, Val, Sergey and I all went out for dinner one night for a lobster "pig out". Marty devoured seven lobsters... It was a pay one price type place and get all the lobsters ( and other seafood specialities) that you could "snork" up.
Got to see lots of old friends and made tons of new ones.
Sergey showed us some very interesting stuff he is planning on his portable laptop computer that show the appearance of diamonds in various environments. The work he put into this is simply amazing. The detail of how the diamond appears is just short of spectacular. You take an image of where the diamond will be, input the type and proportion file, and it produces how the diamond will look in the image you input. He had a scene of daylight in a photos where there was intense daylight in an area surrounded with mountains, and you could see just how the diamond would look, with amazing detail, even with the reflection of the surrounding mountains reflected in the table of the diamond. Sergey really is an incredibly nice guy with lots of brilliant ideas to improve and develop some amazing changes to what we already have available to us. It''s almost scary to think what incredible tools we''ll have five years from now.
The technology keeps on being more intensely develped.
A new ASET which was really nicely designed, made of metal was also on display and we got to be able to play with it. It has with it it''s own lighting source, but differs from the face down desktop ASET,in that the stones are view face up. A NEW hand held ASET was also on display and very much improved over the last hand held ASET version.
I got one of the new metal ASET models and it will be shipped out shortly and will be providing some photos of it as soon as I get it.
More later....
Rockdoc
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