Keeping it simple - this cushion cut & aset, ya like?
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No Likey. Mushy.
Those garbled areas without clear facet delineation will quite literally look garbled and "mushy" IRL - they won't return light, leak light, turn on/off as you rock the stone, or do anything, really, they just look grey and indistinct through most types of lighting. The way it outlines the table on three sides is not promising IMO - there'll be a grey "ring" of mushiness under the table, I don't care for that look.
Those garbled areas without clear facet delineation will quite literally look garbled and "mushy" IRL - they won't return light, leak light, turn on/off as you rock the stone, or do anything, really, they just look grey and indistinct through most types of lighting. The way it outlines the table on three sides is not promising IMO - there'll be a grey "ring" of mushiness under the table, I don't care for that look.
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One of our board experts describes "virtual facets" - the pattern of facets you see when you look into the stone. They aren't actually physically cut into the material, they're reflections of facets, and reflections of reflections... the VFs behave like physical facets in that they depict the path that a given ray of light that enters the stone is going to take. They can be big, small, and miniscule, and each VF can reflect light, obstruct (reflect darkness), or leak (let light escape) at any given time when the stone is held in a certain configuration. Sometimes groups of small VFs work together to alternately leak and obstruct and it's a very lively, sparky look (think princess), sometimes groups of small VFs don't work together well and make for areas of stone that can't do any of those three things effectively (each miniscule VF is returning light/obstructing/leaking but they're all doing different things, and they're too small for the eyes to make out what each individual facet is doing so it just looks like one big indistinct glob. Some "mush" is likely unavoidable unless you go with a specialty cut designed to avoid the effect but I'd look for a stone that doesn't have such a distinct pattern - no ring around the edge of the table..
One of our board experts describes "virtual facets" - the pattern of facets you see when you look into the stone. They aren't actually physically cut into the material, they're reflections of facets, and reflections of reflections... the VFs behave like physical facets in that they depict the path that a given ray of light that enters the stone is going to take. They can be big, small, and miniscule, and each VF can reflect light, obstruct (reflect darkness), or leak (let light escape) at any given time when the stone is held in a certain configuration. Sometimes groups of small VFs work together to alternately leak and obstruct and it's a very lively, sparky look (think princess), sometimes groups of small VFs don't work together well and make for areas of stone that can't do any of those three things effectively (each miniscule VF is returning light/obstructing/leaking but they're all doing different things, and they're too small for the eyes to make out what each individual facet is doing so it just looks like one big indistinct glob. Some "mush" is likely unavoidable unless you go with a specialty cut designed to avoid the effect but I'd look for a stone that doesn't have such a distinct pattern - no ring around the edge of the table..
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