Diamonds are cut and shaped to maximise the number of total internal reflections that light undergoes within them. At each reflection, light is dispersed into the rainbow. Some of these colours eventually make their way out of the stone and to your eyes. So what are the light paths of diferent diamond cuts? How do different diamond cuts reflect, refract and absorb?|||There is more than one question and there is not enough specific info to answer the multiple questions you've proposed. There is a whole section of science on optics: reflections refractions, etc. --within the field of physics and there is too much to cover here in the space provided. Refraction is the principle in which white light is shifted into component frequencies( colors). I recommend you search the wikipedia pages of optics. refraction and reflection and then gemstone refraction.
Thee old science of cutting a stone to yield the most refraction aka sparkle has given over to cutting for the most size regardless of how ugly the final product is.
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