LucidShape Enewsletter

• New Freeform Design Feature
  Expands the toolset of the MacroFocal design capability by providing optical engineers more granular control over the light spread across the entire facet, which reduces the need to subdivide facets into multiple rows of facets. The Freeform Design feature is available in two variations:
  • As a standalone design feature for creating a single freeform surface, accessible from the menu FunGeo > MF-FFD Single Reflector. 
  • Integrated into the MacroFocal design feature, accessible by clicking the FFD button on the MF Reflector dialog. This enables engineers to create a faceted reflector that has some facets that utilize the conventional MacroFocal capabilities, while other facets use the Freeform Design capabilities.

Multi-faceted reflector created with the new Freeform Design Capability (left) and the resulting light distribution (right), assuming a light target distribution of +/- 10 degrees in the horizontal and vertical directions.

• Features that Support Pixel Light Technology
  New features enable users to:
• Save a 3D LID file into individual LID files
• Load individual LID files into a 3D LID file
• Extract, replace, or remove LID frames from a 3D LID file
• Pixel Light Simulator
• Creates a set of light distributions, one for each pixel of the source. Supports simulations of very high-resolution pixel light systems, since results are stored on the user's hard drive.

Pixel light simulation model (left) and simulation result (right).

3D LID Mapper

• The 3D LID Mapper is the core of the pixel light distribution design process. Designers can simulate pixel light systems with all pixels activated and the simulation results are stored in a 3D LID file, resolved by individual pixels. The mapper can create, modify, and write maxima maps of 3D LIDs, enabling users to create a variety of pixel light distributions in post processing without loss of generality/precision. Dramatically shortens simulations compared to simulating each light distribution separately.

New Tolerance Explorer

• Perturbs a LucidShape model from its nominal state, runs batch simulations, and saves the results to a LID file.

New LID Analyzer

• Enables users to check an entire collection of LID files for compliance with a specified regulation test table.

Improvements to the Visualize Module

• The human eye vision (HEVI) capabilities has been extended to allow users to control the amount of color shift at high luminance levels.

Windows 10 Support
LucidShape and LucidShape Lite now support the Windows 10 operating system.

Miscellaneous bug fixes