Talk:Chatoyancy

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This is my very first input to wikipedia, don't feel confident of editing the actual entry but felt this important to mention: The term chatoyance is also widely used in the woodworking field to describe wood grain with a striking 3-dimensional look. [1] (Under heading "Appearance", third paragraph)

Carbon Fiber

I'm not doing it, but somebody should add carbon fiber to this list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3248:A50:CA08:E9FF:FE96:F0E0 (talk) 17:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lede

Consider the following (as it was prior to my slight tweaks):

"There was no evidence of tubes or fibers in the samples examined. The rutile precipitates were all aligned perpendicularly with respect to cat's eye effect. It is reasoned that the lattice... "

This reads like it is a direct copy/paste job from an abstract of a journal paper describing why chatoyancy is/does what it is/does. Why is it in the past tense? What specific samples were examined, etc? I don't have time to go into this now, I just saw an unusual word (describing a dining room table!) and wanted to know what it meant (probably about 85% of Wikipedia traffic having analogous origins). There will no doubt be someone who knows and cares about this to fix it. I'm not being obstructive or sunduly critical...the last time I tried this after quitting the project I got chewed by the entrenched article gatekeepers for infringing on their bailiwick, which reminds me why I left, but hopefully gemology is a sedate enough field that people still have perspective! --104.238.169.51 (talk) 22:35, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

confused

The article never describes what chatoyancy actually looks like: it starts by saying it's related to reflection, goes on to mention that it is caused by fibres (or etc...), and then in the second paragraph likens it to the sheen of silk. What is Chatoyancy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.188.42.73 (talk) 03:42, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As described in the article, it can be "a single sharply defined band of light that moves across the stone when it is rotated." There is a still image showing such a line.

In figured maple, as used to make violin backs, it can look like waves that move as the viewing angle changes. Just plain Bill (talk) 17:53, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]