LucidShape

Innovative Automotive Lighting Design

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Design automotive forward, rear and signal lighting, and reflectors

Quickly Create Reflector or Lens Geometry

Quickly and easily create reflector or lens geometry with LucidShape FunGeo. It leverages proprietary algorithms that automatically calculate and construct optical geometries based on user-defined illuminance and intensity patterns. This unique, functional approach gives you the freedom to focus on overall design objectives rather than the implementation details of complex optical components.

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Produce Rapid Illumination Simulations

Accelerate LucidShape illumination simulations with GPUTrace and experience a quantum leap in speed! LucidShape is the first optical simulation software to take advantage of graphics processing unit (GPU) computing to deliver simulation speed increases by orders of magnitude compared to multithreading capabilities.

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Deliver High-Speed Photorealistic Images

Use LucidShape's Visualize Module to demonstrate luminance effects when light sources in a model are illuminated and depict all interactions between system geometry and light sources. Designers can then evaluate how a lighting system such as turn signals and brake light will be perceived by the human eye. The Visualize Module is a fast, reliable engineering tool that enables designers to perform design checks and make improvements early and often in the product development process.

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Start with the Best Match

Find the best match for your design with the many modules LucidShape offers. Multiple modules can be licensed in various configurations to best match your needs.

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LucidShape SmartStart Material Library

Save time and reduce costs with access to a library of materials and media commonly used in the design of automotive lighting systems. Includes refractive index and absorption data as well as pre-defined volume scatter and BSDF materials.

Additional Features

Interface to Microsoft COM with LucidCOM, which allows you to develop custom solutions to automate tasks and leverage other COM-enabled tools, such as Rhino 3D or CATIA
Perform a wide variety of design tasks through a script procedure written in a C/C++ -like language with LucidShell
Access the LucidObject library, which holds a rich set of different object types to define geometry, material, media, motion, simulation, tasks, behavior, interactions and utility operations
Identify the geometric origins and ray history of individual contributions to the luminance image

For Monte Carlo ray tracing simulations, set a fixed random seed, which deactivates the randomization of ray creation and interaction
Use the MacroFocal feature for the design of multifaceted reflectors
Pixel Light features support the efficient design and simulation of high-resolution, dynamic pixel light headlamps
The LucidShape human eye vision image (HEVI) capability has been extended to give designers more flexibility to control image brightness, contrast, and color shift

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The Best Support in the Industry

Our customer success team is anchored by experienced optical engineers who are experts on LucidShape. If you ever need help, our team is available, along with comprehensive documentation, tutorials, FAQs, and more.

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LucidShape Brochure

Read more about LucidShape, the state-of-the-art 3D system for computer-aided design of automotive lighting and optical product functions.

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Applications

LucidShape can be applied to a wide range of applications. It consists of a powerful set of tools to simulate reflectors, automotive project lamps, light pipes, LEDs, light signs, and more.

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