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Tanzaku-kiri; sliced into thin rectangular strips. Wa-giri; round cut, cut into round slices. Hangetsu-giri; half-moon cut, cut into round slices which are cut in half. Aname-giri ; diagonal cut, cut at a 45-degree angle to make oval slices. Icho-giri; gingko leaf cut, cut into round slices which are cut into quarters.
Diamond cutting, as well as overall processing, is concentrated in a few cities around the world. The main diamond trading centers are Antwerp, Tel Aviv, and Dubai from where roughs are sent to the main processing centers of India and China. [3] Diamonds are cut and polished in Surat, India and the Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen. [4]
A diamond cut is a style or design guide used when shaping a diamond for polishing such as the brilliant cut. Cut refers to shape (pear, oval), and also the symmetry, proportioning and polish of a diamond. The cut of a diamond greatly affects a diamond's brilliance—a poorly-cut diamond is less luminous.
The design is created by crossing the strips to form a grid or weave. [1] Latticework may be functional – for example, to allow airflow to or through an area; structural, as a truss in a lattice girder ; [ 2 ] used to add privacy, as through a lattice screen; purely decorative ; or some combination of these.
Modern US Navy RR-144 (top) and RR-129 (bottom) chaff countermeasures and containers. Note how the strips of the RR-129 chaff (bottom) are of different widths, while those of the RR-144 (top) are all the same width. The RR-144 is designed to prevent interference with civil ATC radar systems.
The Wittelsbach diamond, before being recut by Graff. The original Wittelsbach Diamond, also known as Der Blaue Wittelsbacher, [3] was a 35.56-carat (7.112 g) fancy, deep, greyish-blue diamond with VS2 clarity that had been part of both the Austrian and the Bavarian Crown jewels. [4] Its colour and clarity had been compared to the Hope Diamond ...
Norm explains how the deck supports are built and the concrete footings are poured. The wood framework for the two-level deck is just beginning. Bob heads to the front of the home to discuss how the crew safely strips lead paint from the exterior of the project house, outlining the precautions that need to be taken.
In 1994, using inspiration from Discoveryland at Disneyland Paris, Tomorrowland was completely re-built and altered to resemble a galactic spaceport as it would have been envisioned by the science-fiction comic strips of the early 20th century, like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Tomorrowland has since been given a much more metallic look, along ...