Diamonds picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 10 image entries
Contest Directions: 
British artist Damien Hirst fully coated a human skull with diamonds. The skull is a platinum cast of a 35 year old male from the 18th century, and features several large pink diamonds on its forehead, and smaller diamonds covering the rest. This proves once again, that diamonds are a skull's best friend.
In this contest you are asked to photoshop diamonds one way or another. Examples might include adding them to consumer products, household items, as well as to plants, humans and animals.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2
Started: 6/4/2007 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 6/6/2007 6:10:00 AM
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| | Diamond – mineral, one of the allotropes of carbon.
Physical and mechanical properties of diamonds:
The main distinctive features of diamond — hardest amongst the minerals, possess high thermal conductivity among all other solid bodies and high refractive index and dispersion index. Diamond is also dielectric. Diamond possess very low index of friction on metal in air — only 0,1, which is related to the formation of thin adsorbed gas films, playing the role of unique lubrication, on the surface of crystal.
Capability of crystals to decompose white color into separate components is called “Dispersion”. For diamond, dispersion value is 0.063. One of the important properties of diamonds is the luminescence. Under the influence of sunlight and especially cathodic, ultraviolet and X-rays, diamonds start to luminescent shine in various colors. All varieties of diamonds shine under the influence of cathodic and X-ray radiation and only some shine under the influence of ultraviolet. X-ray luminescence is widely used in practice for extraction of diamonds from rocks.
High refractive index along with high transparency and sufficient dispersion of refractive index (color game) makes diamond one of the most expensive precious stones (along with emerald and ruby, which compete with diamond with respect to price). In natural form, diamond is not considered beautiful. Beauty is lent to diamond by faceting, creating conditions for multiple internal reflections. The faceted diamond is called cut- diamond.
Location of diamonds in nature:
Diamonds rare but at the same time, it is widely found mineral. Commercial deposits of diamonds are known on all continents, except Antarctica. Some kinds of diamond deposits are known. Already several thousands of years ago, diamonds were extracted from gravel deposits in industrial scales. Only by the end of XIX century, when diamond kimberlite pipes were opened for the first time, it became clear that the diamonds are not formed in alluviums.
Meteoric diamonds, extraterrestrial are popular, possibly — pre solar occurrences. Diamonds are also formed during reciprocating metamorphism during fall of large meteorites, for example, in Popigajsky crypto explosion structure in the Northern Siberia.
Besides, diamonds were found in roofing rocks in associations of ultrahigh pressure metamorphism, for example, in Kumdykulsky diamond deposits on Kokchetav mountains in Kazakhstan.
Damien Hirst from England is known for creating controversial and expensive
art. This time he displayed a creation which may be the most expensive
one he's ever done - it involves almost nine thousand smaller to middle
size diamonds, eight large pink diamonds and has a price tag of 98
million dollars. But the price is not the most shocking element of
this art piece. The diamonds fully cover the platinum skull cast of a
35 year old original real teeth, except for the one tooth that is missing. Originally Hirst
replaced it with a gold tooth, but then he decided to take it away.
This gives the skull more human and natural look, he said. Damien also
added in an interview that the diamond coated skull cost him over 40
million just to make and took several jewelry specialists to assist
him in polishing and attaching the diamonds to the platinum surface.
"This was such a delicate project, and I am proud of what we could
accomplish. We hope to cell it to a private buyer that will keep it in
a public display, like London's White Cube gallery, where it is on
exhibit at the moment. We'll make it part of the sale contract that
the buyer can not hide it from the general public, because then the
art piece will be nothing but a private jewelry piece, like some
Fabergé egg which ended in private collections. After all, diamonds
and art are forever and they go together perfectly." |
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